They played together in park, on field, feeling but not acting age. Cuts and shifts, bumps and body checks of friendly contact and competition, fast breaks on open nets when other became too winded to keep chase. They laughed, and they smiled playing on, in youth of game that restored their spirits to […]
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ANSWERED PRAYER
“I am living an answered prayer,” I remind myself—sitting on a bucket, shagging balls as my son throws from a homemade mound into a homemade strike zone and backstop. He’s just home from practice and still wants to play. “Dad, do you want to watch me pitch?” he asked when […]
Short Story
YELLOW-BLUE
Tent of her nipples through summer shirt, raised and drawn in cool of April morn’s yellow-blue; bare of her legs in length and light, hip drawn and edged in yellow of sun, front shadowed in before; hold of their hands, fingers’ interlock, prints’ press into hand back of the other; smiles of lips and […]
Short Story
DECIDED AND DETERMINED
Christ was risen. The tomb was empty. All the world rejoiced (or hated, or denied—such compelled every soul to choose a side); but that was day ago, and Monday was new. What now? What to make and live of it all? Did she still believe, or was such just a day; […]
Short Story
PARALLELS AND CROSSINGS
“I write few tortuous stories,” he shared as they walked along city street. “ I write few twists and fewer turns—plots upended or changed of an unexpected…Mostly, they are attention to a present, or simple plot, foreshadowed, linear and parallel of lives that never cross.” “Why is that? Doesn’t it get boring, writing […]