DON’T GO ANYWHERE by James Hanna
Since retiring and moving to Florida, my wife, Mary, and I have become news junkies. This is not because we have more time to fill, but because the news has acquired the fascination of...
TASTING NOTES by Shanti L. Nelson
We’re deep into our routine when quarantine hits. Once a week, chocolate cake and instant coffee. Black with two white sugars, never brown. He’s always taken it this way. “Since the war.” Since his...
NO MORE TEARS by Kristin Gunner
“I don’t want any tears.”
My Papaw occasionally talked about his funeral, even before we knew he’d be gone soon. I promised him I wouldn’t cry when that day came, but I broke that promise....
AN UNEXPECTED EXCURSION by Iskandar Rakhimov
There is a limit to dreaming, especially for someone unimaginative like me. Our memories can’t play their splendid tricks on reality when confined to a room or ensconced by a windowsill. These treasures are...
CLOSED DOORS AND EMPTY SPACES by Victoria Duncan
“What’s up with Christine?” My husband, Ron, not known for his subtlety, asks. He squints and angles his chin with the precision of a laser pointer towards our in-town neighbor who ducks around her...
MY STORY by Kimberlyn Caywood
I never made a decision for myself, not until I moved out just shy of my twenty second birthday. After I won a merit scholarship of $25,000 (and later, was given $100,000, as one...
THE TRANSCENDENT POWER OF BROTHERLY LOVE by Allen Maller
God made human beings because God loves stories. (Elie Wiesel) There are all kinds of stories. Some are taken from reality and processed through inspiration, other rise up from an instant of inspiration; and...
HOME AND THE WORLD by Michael Mooring
Home and the World
“To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit....
FINDING FAMILY by Stefanie Wass
My husband has always known he was adopted.
I found out by sticking my foot in my mouth.
Early in our courtship, when we were both in our twenties, my over six-foot tall husband showed me...