“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 […]
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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 […]