“And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal, and behold there was a great earthquake, And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood: and the stars from heaven fell upon the earth, as the fig tree casteth its green figs when it is shaken […]
Browsing Tag: Short Story
Short Story
ON MOUNTAIN’S TOP
“Sharpen your sight, Reader: the truth, this time, is covered by a thinning veil, and so, the meaning should be easy to perceive.” —Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Purgatory, Canto VII, lines 19-21. “I’m reading it all again,” Ryan shared. “I finished Vita Nuova and began The Diving Comedy yesterday. I didn’t sleep well […]
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UNTIL AFFECTION
“…but Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart.”—Luke 2: 19 He read in the predawn morning—body, mind, and spirit waking slowly in self-ritual well before rising of the sun. Something struck, an affection that moved within; and when it came, he rose and moved to a small table where he wrote […]
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ETERNAL LOVE
“In the spiritual body man actually appears as he is, with respect to love and faith; for every one in the spiritual world is the likeness of his love, not only as to the face and body, but even as to speech and actions. Hence it is that the true qualities are known, and […]
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REAPER
“Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world […]
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AFFECTIONS
“…nothing is appropriated to man but what is done from an affection, which is of the love…In a word, whatever does not enter into freedom into man does not remain; because it is not of his love or will, and the things which are not of a man’s love or will are not of his […]
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SAYING WRONG
“Most everything I’ve ever spoken, I’ve said wrong,” he shared. “Wrong words…wrong time…wrong understanding. Learning shame from saying wrong, I’ve spent even more of life sharing nothing at all: keeping in, fearing rejection or misunderstanding—judgment for the wrongs I speak. I don’t know why that would suddenly change in me,” he continued. “I’ll […]
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HINDRANCE
“What is the greatest hindrance to good?” “Reticence and the idea that—for it to be good—it must be reciprocated. Good is the reward in and of itself, not recognition nor reciprocation. Should it be returned to us, it is only further blessing. How often to we wait and watch for it to […]
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REPEAT THE PAST
“You can’t repeat the past.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald You staged hours before in the hangar bay of the ship by company, platoons, squads, and fire teams. You inspected, reinspected, and waited. You had an old iPod, back when they were just music, and you listened to zone out and to put your mind in a […]
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HER NAME
Ryan listened to the conversation never expecting to become a part. Resting in the college coffee shop, Ryan listened as two English Doctorates—each with their own private, and common, ambition to write the next Great American Novel—debated Dante and the identity of his beloved. As the often case of most such-dreamers, their minds […]