“How do you change the world?” asked the young man of ambition to the old with experience. “Care,” the old man answered. “Care for Someone, Anyone. Don’t worry whether it is the Right One, or the Wrong One. Who it is, is not important, so long as it is Someone. If you feel […]
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Short Story
CONFRONTATION
“Why are you going back there?” Adam asked. “Because it’s in me,” Ryan answered. “I’ve ignored it, and it’s stayed. Maybe if I write it, it will release and let me be. It doesn’t bother me. It doesn’t haunt me. It’s just there, but I want space for better memories, not these. […]
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AFTER-LIFE
They sat in a ground blind looking out over a timbered edge of burned prairie waking back to life. In the steel-sheen glow of darkness before the rising colors of dawn, green sprigs shone spiking from the black mounds of charred earth. As light rose, the faint green of spring buds shone in adornment […]
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GRAY BEGINNING
In the counter-shadow of dawn’s beginning light, beneath skies gray from spring mourning, water shone as a blanket, even on shallow-slopes where clumped grasses dammed and held it from its run, appearing as snow absent pale glow in season before. Blades of grass shone green up through the standing water, breaking the mirror surface […]
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WRITE IT
“I have different stories to write,” he shared. “Then write them,” she replied. “They won’t be all happiness and hope as I’ve tried to write before.” “If that’s all someone is, how can they relate to the rest of us?” “Some will be fucked up.” “Aren’t we all a little?” […]
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JUST THE WEATHER
Maybe it was just the weather, cold and rain getting to the heart, or maybe more was taking change. A gray cloud front followed vibrant dawn that swept and took its hold raining in steady fall without the trembling force of storm: only rain—cold, melancholy, persistent—dampening day, world, and sky. It got to […]
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RELIGION OF THE SUN
The bitterest days were past. A new front settled: warming the world and melting the snow and heavy ice of weeks before. Every dawn, the sun inched northward in its horizon breaking; and, every day, he waited and held witness to its rise. The ground would thaw, the wheat root stronger—tillering and giving […]
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CONVERSATION
“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk any more, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theatre, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk…”—Paulo Coelho, The Zahir The fire blazed in the small room, […]
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A BETTER WAY
“…it is you, spirit—with will and energy, and virtue and purity—that I want: not alone your brittle frame. Of yourself you could come with soft flight and nestle against my heart, if you would: seized against your will, you will elude the grasp like an essence—you will vanish ere I inhale your fragrance. Oh! Come […]
Quick Thought / Short Story
POSSIBILITY
“Do you believe opportunities we are meant to live are ever truly lost? Does opportunity die, or only change? If we change our eyes with new perceptions, do possibilities reappear. In different time, condition, and space, does the opportunity remain if we will ourselves to act? How many times do we talk ourselves […]