It was hard to spot a dead animal by the side of the road after it snowed. They looked like a little white mound, like a corpse buried in white dirt, and Farley couldn’t tell if it was a road kill or just garbage or what. That was why he […] Read the rest
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November 14, 2011
Pieces
[Pieces is the third and final in this series of stories. Together they are a discussion of how lust tries to crowd out love. Ultimately it is the attempt to replace the eternal with the temporary, never a good idea for us mere mortals. Great, momentary pleasures can not replace […] Read the rest
April 14, 2011
The Sun’s Path
[ This is the second of three stories (In The Mirror, The Sun’s Path and Pieces) that have pretty adult themes – perhaps too graphic for this site. But I want to make their message clear. Hidden beneath the desires and distractions of this life, there is an a priori […] Read the rest
January 7, 2011
In the Mirror
The arch of her body was like the crescent moon as she dived naked into the bay. The water was dark and cold and she was alone. She broke back through the surface for a breath, and the pale light of the moon played off the ripples of her wake […] Read the rest
August 20, 2010
When Nanny Died
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
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