“…this is the other side of the contract with creativity: If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you. …the best way…is to move on with swiftly, with humility and grace. Don’t fall into a funk about the one that got away. Don’t beat yourself up. […]
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Short Story
UPON THE HEARTH
“…the Second Order is the essential woman’s business, of keeping the fire of love alight upon the hearth…The deepest wells of mysticism are there hidden, and must always be hidden, from the outer world.”—Evelyn Underhill, The Essentials of Mysticism _____ In sustain and blow of the changing wind, first autumn frost arrived as […]
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QUEEN OF THE COURT
Today, my daughter plays her last game for her middle school volleyball team. I will be missing. Dividing and conquering, I will be getting our son to his football game. Still, my daughter is on my mind. I thought of her yesterday, too, in full day of drilling wheat. I remembered her as […]
Short Story
VISION-DAZZLE
She’d never seen a sun as that. He’d never seen her gaze such way, adoration-fix upon the seeing: flame surround and hold of light, like shavings of the sun or phosphoric firework without settle, fall, or diminish of brilliance. She fixed to the sun beyond wind dance of the paled […]
Short Story
UNSHAKEN
“Do you ever have days when visions won’t shake?” he asked. She listened empathetic and smiling, knowing well the way. “I might,” she answered studying and reading his eyes. “What are they painting to you now?” she asked. He was silent, and she felt […]