April Fool’s was dressed as Death. It came in silently, past midnight, into the hospital room where Nanny was dying. Joyce was catching catnaps on the vinyl hospital chair and didn’t hear the night steal Nanny’s soul away. She startled awake when she no longer heard her mother’s breathing through […] Read the rest
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August 20, 2010
April 2, 2010
A Loss of Memory
“Watch now, Paul,” Grandpa told me. We were on a winding bit of highway outside Texarkana. Grandpa was showing me how to drive for the first time, and I watched intently so I wouldn’t crack-up when I got my chance behind the wheel. We were in Grandpa’s old ’64 Ford […] Read the rest
March 3, 2010
Out of the Eternal Sea
“He who was wounded by the sword and yet lived…whose fatal wound had been healed.”
– The Revelation
A stranger knocked on the front door. The little boy of almost eight could see him in the porch light.
“Well open the door, Stephen,” Mother said as she came to the […] Read the rest
January 27, 2010
Sunrise Morning
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Collier Books, 127 pages, $4.95
Book Review
Ernest Hemingway had a way of getting right at the heart of a story. His brutally American directness changed the voice of 20th century fiction. And in “The Old Man and the Sea” […] Read the rest