A Quiet Corner of a Busy World
I am a gracious garden queen. My words bring life. Sprouts leaf and green. I raise one up, I cut one low, Instruct the vines which way to grow. Break up the quarrels, bind lovers, Entwine the roses in bowers, Cast out the rebels from the plot, Refresh their thirst, remove the rot. There’s dirt [...]
“Look what I brought, Miss Barnwell.” I looked up from entering attendance on my computer and made eye contact with the impish painted eyes of a 10-inch doll. It was sitting in a coy pose, hugging its knees, inside an enormous glass pickle jar. I eventually regained the mental strength to break eye contact and [...]
"Spare us, gentle queen!" Yellow-headed rogues grovel. "Fie! Off with their heads!"
A little fiction from a recent writing assignment... Suzanne lifted the hamper onto her hip. “Last call for laundry!” As she walked to the top of the stairs, a door flew open. Darren threw a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, and a sweaty sock on top of the hamper. Yes, just one sock. Suzanne raised [...]
Some days, it feels more complicated being a godly woman than simply being a godly person. This has been especially hard for me recently as a single woman. I am at the age when 95% of my friends are already married and having kids. I have not even been on a date. As a household [...]
Last year on Valentine's, I wrote a poem for my favorite literary character. This year, it is a fanfiction diary entry. They are so cruel to me. They do not understand that he has consigned me to a terrible fate. He would have me wait in a peaceful, quiet cage, until my arm is healed… [...]
Writer's Block I sat down to write, But my ideas won’t hold words Strange, stuttering sort of author Three black crows cawing in the fog, All the songs I play are minor. I sat down to write, Of teacups, hearth, and heartache, But only poetry came out… But poetry brushed the prose out. Sentences incomplete [...]
It started with a yard sale find and a spool of thread. I have always found patchwork quilting a beautiful art. Though modern day quilting can also be very beautiful and require skill, there is something even more lovely about the humble and simple patchwork tradition. Patchwork quilts were a way of making the practical [...]
‘Be fruitful,’ how the gardeners have failed. Leaves aflame, wrathful messengers of God. We have eaten the fruit, death has been hailed. God! We’ve killed it all! All returns to sod. Earth brown and brittle, now we walk alone, The chill wind stunts growth, even of the thorn. We bury the seed, what can now [...]
Honk! Drew laid on the horn of his 1996 Buick as he came to a stop. He cranked the window down and called, “Nick, why are you sweatin’ out here, bro?” From the camp chair on the porch, Nick weakly waved the Hot Rod magazine he’d been using as a fan, “Hey man, just [...]
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