Following Jesus in rejecting empire
[The following blog series will be comprised of some original short stories] October 17, 2021 My déjà vu is back in living color. I’m constantly aware of multiple times that I’ve experienced these moments, even this one. I’ve been able to parse up to 4 layers of déjà vu in a single moment. After that,…
By the end of the day Delaney has learned the names of many of the flowers that adorn the Townley Hall gardens. Despite his impatience, Mr. Byrne has taken note of the diligence with which the child works, and the great interest she has taken in the garden. “And these, in the shade,” she says,…
“I’ll fetch Father Fitzpatrick,” Doyle tells Brother O’Brien as he pulls Magdalene and Adrienne clandestinely through the back door and into the kitchen. Brother O’Brien is setting some bread and cheese on a plate when Father Fitzpatrick walks in. “Brother, O’Brien. We weren’t expecting you back for another month.” “I’m afraid that plague has visited…
Sometimes the truth needs to be told from an angle. The truth head on can blind a person or scare them, like a bolt of lightning. Better to tell it in a more circuitous way. Or so it seems Emily Dickenson believed if we grasp her poem. Jesus liked to tell it slant in his…
Source: Google Photo I have written a couple unpublished novels of speculative, post-apocalyptic fiction. Here’s an excerpt, just for fun. Rosemary has always thought that Elder Stoltz’s face looks very like a mouse. Though she muster all powers of concentration, she cannot stop herself from seeing him in this way. His ears stick out nearly…