Certain Places
August 26, 2020[…] in something more protective. A hard case. A shell. Something that separates them more firmly from the world outside. The world that is not the temple. But then again, they are just articles of […]
[…] in something more protective. A hard case. A shell. Something that separates them more firmly from the world outside. The world that is not the temple. But then again, they are just articles of […]
[…] looked after herself all her life—managed her own money, traveled once to Hawaii alone, once to the World’s Fair in New York, recognized and countered the ploys of those out to trick her. She […]
[…] inevitable roar between two headlights on a dark road. But half a dozen strategies erased that picture, breaking the paralysis. He pictured himself with an ear to the receiver and an eye out the […]
[…] be the last straw for Melissa, but he was the one. She had already endured beyond her breaking point. The mud, the wind. Anomie. Isolation. Death came to her as a natural consequence, a […]
[…] If he’d just drop those skeptical blinders long enough to see what’s really going on in this world. . . .” Carmen Maria Stavely, whose exotic given names trailed a deliberately homespun life like […]
[…] it. I had no idea such a thing was possible. “Wow,” I thought, “we live in a world inhabited by animals capable of stepping on their own teats.” I asked Cliff if there was […]
[…] night. He had extolled their wit, their sense of humor: “Dirt poor in the things of the world, but wonderful people! Humble! Spiritual! God’s children all!” “An inspired call!” he had declared, re-reading the […]
[…] of sports magazines. “My place is nowhere near as immaculate as this,” I admit. “I’m not the world’s best housekeeper.” He confesses to having a cleaning lady. “I bet I know one difference between […]
[…] the voices said, and Adam followed them. From the ledge he would be able to see the world as God did—from above, from a distance. He followed the course of the stream, up the […]
[…] sons, two daughters. This is what the Lord had offered them and what they had offered the world. They called Stacy first; she would know how they should tell the others. Jesse would probably […]