Browsing Category: Short Story

                They walked a country road together in high apex of August heat as sun sank in sight in western sky; its fire greatest in advance of coming eve and night’s cooling respite hinting of autumn airs to come.  The sky weighted heavy in humidity from a rain that would not break and dampness refusing […]

                Daylight died, and the passion hues of ending eve cooled, steeling into blackness and patterned stars.  Leo rested in repose low in night sky with points of Universe fire scattered above and all around.                 He thought again of the lost glow and canvas of sky painted in the rising and dying of day […]

                “Why did the ancients speak in parables?” James asked.  “Why didn’t they just say plain what they meant and wanted understood?”                 Eli listened then replied, “For the same reason men speak them in parts of the world today and why we may too, again, in time.”                 “Why?” James questioned.                 “We mistake […]

“The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.  Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.  And God is able to provide you with every blessing in […]

                “How do you find a resonant soul?” he asked.                 “Keep sharing,” she replied.  “Keep showing what lights you up.  A soul that makes no waves leaves nothing to be found.  Make your waves.                    Keep giving.  Maybe what you share will never mean a thing to most, but to the ones it […]

      “What is romance?” Ryan asked.       “Lived spirit recognized in resonance with another soul,” she answered.       “Then how does it arise from the inanimate: colors in sky, lines in a book, sound of a song, sense of wind when alone in thought—memories?”       “All lives as spirit in contemplative mind.”       “And how […]

                He woke her in the blackness of pre-dawn, well before the rising sun, and drove to open field where stars shone in violet sky above horizon rimmed in ambient light of small town beneath world’s meridian.  They lain together staring into the Cosmos as stars fell from the heavens all around—blue, green, and orange […]

          Brake lights flared in chained effect, slowing as traffic entered into chaff catching and blowing heavy across the road in strong south wind from drawn into low-pressure front approaching from above.  Chaff carried, thick and billowing, like smoke, across the highway as red-light brakes and the scattering of approaching white lights, showing yellow through […]