Forsaken
For Unto Us… Blindly judged falsely accused tortured and speared beaten and bruised. Rejected, betrayed by His closest friends while everyone else chanted for His end. The sun stopped shining … Continue Reading
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J.W. Richmond
XYZ
Below the Stars We keep missing each other. We are at the same coordinates the same XYZ. … Continue Reading
Frog
Smiling Tree Frog It was a large, pineapple-sized tree frog. Impossible, but beautiful! He was silky smooth, symmetrical, perfectly shaped, and not quite, but almost a bright royal blue, with white spots around his eyes and a couple thin white … Continue Reading
NaNoWriMo
Light That’s Not Its Own October 28 November is National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a. NaNoWriMo. Even most of my short stories and minor, insignificant non-fiction blog posts remain unpublished because they feel perpetually unfinished and incomplete, so writing a full-length … Continue Reading
Juices
From being normal busy, sick, crazy busy, then catching up on all the chaos that accumulated when I was sick, October flew by. Halloween is my favorite holiday and I have not been able to adequately enjoy it this year. … Continue Reading
Flitter
Smoke and Sparks Smiling in a way she had never known before, she ran, coloring painting illuminating everything and … Continue Reading
Naive
He spent more time on his hair than any guy or girl I had every known. His multiple earrings and eyebrow ring prompted my dad’s response when first meeting him, “You’ve got a lot of hardware in your head.” Clay … Continue Reading
Somethings
A Collection of Incompletion It’s the same problem I always seem to have. I can’t pull the pieces the words the phrases … Continue Reading
Straight
Serenity I went straight down. I had no idea you were supposed to go back and forth, side to side. I’d seen snowboarding before, but clearly I hadn’t focused on technique. And no one bothered to tell me I wasn’t … Continue Reading
Tilt
Elusive Horizon Nothing remains where it should where it is supposed to how it was designed to. Walls trees streets and people shift … Continue Reading