Christmas

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    Christmas Story

    I have this idea for a time travel Christmas story. It is still in the concept formation stages, but I have an opening I’d like to share with you …. Gabriel, the lead character, is obsessed with going back in time to see Christ’s birth in person. When he finally makes it, he discovers something that shatters his faith at first, but over the course of the story regains it with a deeper understanding of God and the Universe.

  • Kicked Out

    I was kicked out of my home by my stepmother during Christmas vacation 1984. I was told I was going to move in with my mother my New Year’s day. This vignette is my experience and my imagining of what was going on in my Dad’s mind at the time. His head was low, his…

  • Shard of Glass

    The following is a fictionalized version of something that actually happened to me. The scar is almost gone, but the memory lingers. The tree was tall and hanging upon it were baubles and balls, angels and tin soldiers, tinsel and lights. A little girl, no more than five or six approaches it. Her curly hair…