BASEBALLS by Allen Long
Baseballs
I’m sixty-three and work several days a week as an assistant hospital nurse in the San Francisco Bay Area. On my days off, I walk my beloved golden retriever, Ruby, two miles every morning...
SHORT CIRCUIT by Robert Burns
Short Circuit
Robert Burns
The light extinguished, yet the kinetic shock surged to my feet. The amplitude waxed, like whipped rope, each stronger than the last. I rubbed my feet against the sheet, back and forth,...
THE SAD, IRONIC FATE OF SULLIVAN BALLOU by Frank Emerson
THE SAD, IRONIC FATE OF SULLIVAN BALLOU
Of all the letters associated with the American Civil War, two stand out as arguably the most beautiful and touching – certainly the best known. Abraham Lincoln's poignant,...
THE PASSION by Tracy Mann
THE PASSION
Jesus is condemned to death
The news came to me from Brazil in the late 1970s. The transparent airmail envelope, striped in green and yellow, contained a premonition of a death. Recently returned from...