I rise to spring sounds of birds singing airy notes from black branches silhouetted before a navy sky. The world is not light, but it is less dark. The sounds seem as if coming from the depths of a wooded forest, but it is only a few trees in the yard and hedgerows in […]
Browsing Tag: Short Story
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WHAT DO YOU DO WITH AN IDEA?
Last night, my daughter made me cry. She read me a book. I was having an evening when I felt a little off. Sad isn’t the word, but there was something in me that wasn’t settled. When I work through moments like that, I feel a difference and I know it shows. She […]
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WHEN THE WORLD CHANGED
I lived days I lost myself in thought, when discovering me again, I witnessed clouds shift, sun break, and sky show with a new and beautiful light. I don’t know what it meant, if it meant anything at all, but I observed. I witnessed how—in a thought—heavens moved, light shone, and the world illuminated […]
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CLARITY
I write in the mornings. I begin when the sky is black and nothing shows. I write, and the thought and sky begin to glow. The sky warms from the horizon up, muted hues of a light yet revealed. When the thought I wish to share completes, dawn breaks and I am blinded and […]
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SPOILED
It is after dark before I am home. The house is quiet, and the children are “in bed,” having a sleepover in Audrey’s room. I shower, washing free the dirt from a day in the field, and when I exit the bathroom, a child waits in the kitchen with their mother. He “can’t […]
Quick Thought
FOOLISH
“…I’ve worked through my fear of feeling foolish. Doesn’t it take a certain degree of foolishness to open up to anyone: to leave ourselves exposed to all kinds of risks and hurts? But doesn’t the same foolishness also open ourselves to all kinds of good that might come too? Before, I guarded myself in […]
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UNDEFINED
“Well you don’t know much about me. I’ll explain it as best I can…” The song played in the kitchen as dinner wound to a close. They listened to the melody, the harmony, its lyrics, and the song added further calm to an already peaceful room. Listening to their sound, the little boy […]
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LITTLE BLACK BOOK
I had one for everywhere I went. I still do. I had it if I needed it, if I found a little time and needed, or wanted, to feel something. Somedays I’d return to an old entry, but mostly I would add another that was new. It was what I did when I was […]
Quick Thought
AN ENERGY
It is trying to rain again, but it is a different front. It is not the steady fall of our winter—gray with only the sound of pour upon the earth. This front is different. The songs of birds, bugs, and frogs precede the storm. There is a flash of light, then crack and […]
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BEAUTIFUL MESS
I’m putting out mineral for cattle. I’m in a hurry and couldn’t tell you why. I have all day. The ground is still wet, and the Jeep slides everywhere we go. I walk the bags of mineral to where they’re placed—the blocks of salt as well—because even the Jeep will not make it where […]