Light Still Arriving
After the last child reached for the golden ring and descended from painted wooden horses, after the music stopped playing and the world stopped spinning, the shops closed their doors and the crowds returned home, and Damien Fry waited alone.
A hundred lights swayed in branches overhead where glistening rain slipped past to beat his shoulders [...]
Elsie
Elsie’s thin hand pressed the afghan into the tight space between her leg and the wheelchair arm. Her sister crocheted it, this green and orange thing, her lifeline to the outside.
“Ready to go back?” A staccato voice.
“Yes.”
“Eat your desert this time?”
“Yes.”
“Good girl. Want me to push you?”
Her soft blue eyes shifted. “I can do [...]
The Old Friend
Only a thin pane of glass separated me from the rain. I watched it roll down the other side, and wondered if some other window had shed similar tears on that day. I tossed a sweater in a suitcase, considering for a moment how such a common object could have saved him. But he had [...]
Immaculata
Summer stood at bay but for the blue and yellow rays cast from stained glass, falling in panicked swirls across the floor and mahogany benches repeating front to back.
She lit candles here every night from age seven. They shivered in her eyes, hiding in shadows across her face.
“Immaculata,” the voice would say when she mouthed [...]
The Bright Yellow Secret
One bright yellow morning I stumbled as a child from my bed and stepped into the light. Sensing something, I lingered behind my sister when she stepped forth boldly, as if she already knew, as if she had already been introduced to it. But being younger, I had slept longer and the introduction had not [...]
Writing and The Three-Cushion Shot
In On Writing, Earnest Hemingway says, “I try always to do the thing by three-cushion shots rather than by words or direct statements. But maybe we must have direct statements too.”
E.B. White is often quoted with, “Be obscure clearly.”
The three-cushion shot and obscure clarity could be seen as extensions of the “show, don’t tell” advice [...]
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