Browsing Category: Short Story

        Anna wore cloud-tinted hat again, burgundy dress that stirred in wind and set his heart to tremulous waver before steady and strengthen into race with pang and ache that raised of a longing—when he took her strong over bed of brome under open summer sky.         Dress wore different on […]

        Rising sun burne away the dew and cool and calm of dawn.  Blue of sky, bright of light—then came the want and longing that strengthened in the heat.         Daydreamings and mind’s conspire as he worked in the full of sun, he gazed in thoughtfulness to shade; gentler of the heat […]

               As children, they played in the woods and creek that ran in parallel to trail through the neighborhood park.                 She had dark hair and dark eyes, ran fast—for a girl—when they played as well on the soccer field and baseball diamond in open beyond the woods.                In the woods, for most of […]

               Sitting upright, high body tall and straight at edge of bed, Anna smiled as he leant in stand, face and body low to hers; grace of his kiss, supple and warm upon her lips of same, grasp of his hands to her tops of breasts, strong and firm—his feeling through—as kiss built in join […]

               Through view of lens, she found her joy again—two smiles and spirits in summer day in age of imagination and play.                 Through the lens, greater world blocked away, and she saw only the smiles and happiness of their little world made in closeness and share of surroundings as lived and perceived.                “Look […]

        He sat on the porch in the afternoon, shade of the wide-spread maple before.  Its leaves were darkened on shadowside from sun, and for the first time in many weeks, aside from storms, there was neither excesssive heat nor burden.  T-shirt, linen shorts, shade of the tree; there was a comfort.         […]