Searching
April 20, 2018[…] home, and Beth felt sure it was he who was talking with Wendy now. What in the world do they talk about? Curiosity nagged at her each time Wendy secluded herself for one of […]
[…] home, and Beth felt sure it was he who was talking with Wendy now. What in the world do they talk about? Curiosity nagged at her each time Wendy secluded herself for one of […]
[…] chew this for a while?” It wasn’t that we weren’t tempted. We were in the midst of World War II, and gum was hard to come by. You cherished each piece, chewing it for […]
[…] I’ll have to pay your way to the conference next week; so then I’ll be the one breaking the rules.” “I’ll write home.” “You know that’s not the point. You know I don’t care […]
[…] faith. It is no longer beyond her, as it was before her conversion, to consider the spirit world viable, the distance between mortals and their predecessors, small. It is something she sometimes hopes for, […]
[…] and me against The Man. Samuel liked it. He pushed it in the first stage. The whole world against us. I feel your pain. We can make it, but we’ve got to work together. […]
[…] of food in their basements. Julie’s mother, however, refused to “stockpile,” a position she had taken during World War II. The rest of the room was better supplied. Julie’s father owned a lot of […]
[…] no longer bear the remoteness of his soul. And then, after the Mormon missionaries found him, the world was not as it once seemed to be. Father Dejardin shook Luis’s shoulder lightly. “Luis, morning […]
[…] of a thousand feet on the wet pavement of Liege. Feels strange to be thrown into a world you’re not part of; I look around me and can’t shake the feeling that we’re all […]
[…] got to choose a hundred dollars worth of fishing equipment from Carlson’s as a prize. The Second World War was over, but equipment was still hard to get. I fished with a metal telescope […]
[…] moments alone as sweetly as she had felt her first kiss. Though welcomed, Barb’s return seemed a breaking of something whimsical. She smiled as Barb, who now wore that man’s red button-down shirt, tossed […]