I was reminded, so I looked and then found one of my old pieces published in The Chalcedon Report back in 2002. I remember that I was responding to a negativ...

The following short story is what I wrote as my second entry into the NYC Midnight Short Story Tournament. This heat required three elements: An Action Adven...

The following short story is what I wrote as my first entry into the NYC Midnight Short Story Tournament. The heat I was in required three elements: A comedy...

It is obvious that our elected officials cannot seem to agree about walls but Samsung just revealed theirs. This new item also proves Ray Bradbury right aga...

I think there are some interesting things in this piece by Zat Rana: There Are Two Ways to Read — One Is Useless My immediate problem as a classroom teacher ...

As I watched that video and others like it, I again sat in wonderment of the craziness that overcomes some folks on “Black Friday.” Much of the recent brouh...

-I- Fortunes At Our Feet Arriving under leafy eucalyptus branches Snowy tent tops like a tiny cathedral in the grass Folks mingling, excitement wafting throu...

Icy air creeping out of vents, pumping the smell of aging flesh. Nurse, attention caught by accident, a whisper perhaps. He materialized down the distant hal...

The second semester of my freshman year in college I had an interesting English prof. His name was Mr. Anderson. He loved to pick on the girls in class. I b...

I was excited to see what HBO cooked up when I saw the initial preview to their film based on the novel Fahrenheit 451 (https://www.hbo.com/movies/fahrenheit...

Eggs that betray? East and West Egg play an integral role in this classic novel. Yet it is still a strange phrase. The truth is that it is an anagram of the...

It's Fat Tuesday (a.k.a. the day prior to Ash Wednesday) ! You should read Edgar Allan Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado”. The short story takes place, “one evenin...

I think that there are many popular missionary stories out there that generally have a happy ending. Even in martyrdom there is hope. This story is not reall...

Can she get accepted into Werth Academie? The Little Girl had to answer the One Big Question.