Standing in hide among reeds and frond heads of tall marsh grasses, even the decoys in open-pocket water, close, were obscured. Fog held low and heavy and suspended as mist that floated more than fell faint and light from sky. Air and the decoy spread were still, lifeless, but James didn’t worry. In […]
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Short Story
NEW-LIFE SUN
Annie lain in repose on the long-drawn couch without armrests to set ends and limits to its bounds. Upon it she read in continued openness of night, reading in the yellow-gold of a new-life sun. She read in the book of reentry and life meaning, where one finds meaning, purpose, and moments of […]
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SHARED TIME
I shared time with my grandparents today. I do not think in years, but is years since they have passed. I went to mas with my father, the same parish where I was raised, but the church is new. Walking in, I touched my hand into the Holy Water font that welled […]
Short Story
CHRISTMAS CARDS
We all have a story to live. Beginning, none know what it will be. Then one day, often without our even knowing, greatest chapter and tale begins. Little by little, day by day, our story lives and writes; us unseeing to what is done. Then arrive little moments, looking back, when we see—before […]
Short Story
SEQUELS
Rainfall arrived to the city, its sense and feel of building tell speaking in air and sky through all of day: in change of the clouds, air warm then cool; shifting of winds that settled into cool and damp of still that held, unmoving, until air burst and sound of wind in announcement of […]