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The next day it rained buckets and we girls were even more bored to tears than usual since we were stuck inside. I swept the canned goods aisle maybe 15 times in 30 mins just to give me something to do. Momma put Mary Sue to work scrubbing the walls of the bathroom. Me and
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There are moments when my father in law’s absence really hits me. They are coming fewer and further between now, but they certainly still give me a gut punch when they happen. My nephew had a (very belated) graduation party at the baseball park (we have a minor league team, the Louisville Bats) and he
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The chew witch lived up in the hills, on one of them dirt roads that never had any gravel on it in the first place, because nobody had the money to spread it or care enough to. Her real name was Clara Lou or Lou Claire or something like that but everybody called her the
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Each card unanswered was not a deterrent By stubbornness or faith, she maintained her position To include him by sending unwanted invitations And to inform him though silence was his condition. Why didn’t she resign herself to the truth That the pride that is too big in a moment Becomes a hole of regret, an
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For the last few years, United Methodists have been experiencing the agony of schism within our denomination. Now finally, it feels like we might be at the end of the process of separation. May it not be so forever. After the divorce I’ll hand you the keys to what was my car And as you
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Like many of my projects, I didn’t quite know where The White Stone was going when I wrote the original short story. I have expanded the story world and will be releasing a new book this fall of the same title. The book will tell the story of how Soledge came to be in the
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There is no magic number of “I’m so sorry”s That will ease the pain of being forgotten. It will take time before the burning sting Lessens, and forms a scab. After the scalding, as silently healing My wounded pride retreats from you I will await the day when the heat that you give Does not
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I have been spending a lot of my time reading and re-reading the text of Genesis 12-25 as I work on writing my master’s thesis. In the project, I am exploring the family of Abraham, and the many systems within the narrative that create conflict between the characters. As part of my analysis, I have
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I have been spending a lot of my time reading and re-reading the text of Genesis 12-25 as I work on writing my master’s thesis. In the project, I am exploring the family of Abraham, and the many systems within the narrative that create conflict between the characters. As part of my analysis, I have
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I have been spending a lot of my time reading and re-reading the text of Genesis 12-25 as I work on writing my master’s thesis. In the project, I am exploring the family of Abraham, and the many systems within the narrative that create conflict between the characters. As part of my analysis, I have
The Quick and the Dead
Short stories. Creative experiments. Ideas that might not pan out.
The Quick and the Dead 