glimpses shared by our authors
  • My head was filled with maybe's, as I was in a bathing suit by the community pool. Alice opened the fence, wearing a plaid skirt and sheelvless white top. She's ...
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  • It probably matters, but I don't know what kind of bird it was. Young, for sure. A baby bird. In a trash can. My grandfather had the whitest hair in ...
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  • again and again. Hopes and dreams run through my fingers no matter how hard I try to hold them close in my cupped hand, feeling like circumstance and bad choices ...
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  • So. I've been registered to this site for a while, and I never really wrote anything on here before how, so here goes. The subject for today is the thing ...
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  • Many Protestant congregations struggle with the place of the "E" word in their life and ministry. The "E" word is evangelism. Oops! I'm sorry. I did not actually mean to ...
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  • Samsung sits there in the corner on the desk. Samsung is new, and replaces our older Samsung. It's a bit larger than the old, but claims to be the 'World ...
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  • "Where do you come up with these things?" How precious she still thinks I'm unique. "Well have you?" I smiled a little to make sure that we were playing a ...
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  • i am sitting here on the bed after a meeting with one of my professors, and i feel a bit down and discouraged, and a bit like taking on an ...
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  • "i saw this dark lady, but she was too dark to be my wife." "mom, we ought to end this call on that comment. there's not much more i can ...
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  • My head snapped up from the desk and I jerked around like a pigeon in search of one last grain of food. A little oasis of drool lay pooled on ...
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