STORY: Only The Gardener Was Immune to Its Power
One day Parlo pulled up a chair across from the antique-framed 10 foot wide and equally tall mirror built into the royal entrance hall....
Sep 2611 min read
*STORY: The Love of Beauty, and the Beauty of Love
"Grandma, I'm afraid I'll never be ready to marry him," Henrietta lifted her arms from the kitchen table in protest, "because I know he...
Jul 35 min read
STORY: Reap Dividends on Your Character
Coleridge breathed heavily as he walked through the hall of the hospital. He lowered his head as he walked past the window to his dad's...
Jul 25 min read
STORY: Garbage In, Garbage Out
Arnold had become what he told himself he would never be: one of those scroogey old IT gatekeepers. He worked at FedEx in Data Analytics,...
Jun 299 min read
STORY: The Disciplines of a Father
Johannes had fallen in among unholy friends. His father had been killed, being kicked by a horse and run over by its hay cart when...
Jun 1911 min read
+STORY: Her Obtuse Older Brother
Akari admired her older brother Suto. So much so that, when they were little, she fought him with words and body and competed with him in...
Jun 139 min read
*STORY: The Never Ceasing Front Line
I am but an elderly caretaker of this ancient cathedral in Cannes, Belgium. And I know some of these details will only degrade my...
Jun 134 min read
+STORY: Great Accomplishments require great Virtue through Great Struggle
Philip was barely 17 when the CEO called him in. Philip was led past all the cubicles with his greasy hands, safety goggles on his head,...
May 115 min read
*POEM: These Tombstones Cry Out
Hobbling toward your cross, among shouts, You said 'If they do not praise me, these stones will cry out." I question, "But honestly,...
Apr 131 min read
