Tribal Queen
/…was praying to her most illustrious ancestress.
The Fire-Breather was afield and not just harrowing the upland villages.
Luenza intoned her propitiations to Launesis:
“Forgive me for my…
By Alexander Zoltai
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Grief of The Artisan
/…was struck down to worthlessness.
His body would barely function.
His mind was thin and brittle.
Calefas felt he had been cursed and thought he knew…
By Alexander Zoltai
Read MoreMemoirs of a Navy Dad
/…is challenging. Anyone who has raised children knows it isn’t all peaches ‘n cream. There are good times, and times best forgotten. However, all of those times are priceless.
My wife, Jean and I were fortunate to have four healthy children: two girls and two boys. We often thought it a Mendelian model: two girls, two boys; to blondes, two brunettes; two with blue eyes, two with…
By Robert L. Scarry
Read MoreThe Insane Astrologer
/…World was in trouble.
At least according to Maslestes.
He walked out of his hut and gazed at the heavens.
He walked back in and adjusted the spheres…
By Alexander Zoltai
Read MoreThe Avatar and The Dragon
/… people hoped Wurm was still asleep but they could feel the mountain tremble from his movements.
Do dragons dream?
The people feared his waking and interrupting over a thousand years of peace…
They all knew Wurm was dangerous—legends told of his fire-breathing, not to mention what…
By Alexander Zoltai
Read MoreNobody Ever Saw a Ballplayer Like This One
/…the mound in the eighth inning at Yankee Stadium. For a long moment he studied the scoreboard in center field and thought back on his life – just six outs away from pitching a no-hitter – a dream he had imagined since childhood. He was the most improbable of boyhood…
By Pete Black
Read MoreJust a Joy
/When things are put into perspective
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…smiling clown on my clock face. I don’t know why. I’ve had it for years.
The same beeping alarm too.
It goes…
By Henry Bladon
Read MoreSt. Joseph's Staircase
/In 1878, a supernatural carpenter builds a miraculous staircase in the Loretto Chapel in Sante Fe. More than 150 years later the staircase still baffles visitors.
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…nuns stared sadly at the choir loft, located 22 feet above the chapel floor. They were distraught. Desperate. After five long years, their chapel was complete except…
By Pete Black
Read MoreMinotaur of The Shadows
/…was the same old story—Good against Evil…
The mountain was a majestic upthrust seeming to touch the highest clouds.
They said Titan worshiped the sun, living at the peak of the mountain.
They said Minotaur lived in the shadows, inside the…
By Alexander Zoltai
Read MoreWaking You Up
/Sometimes we are so caught up in the humdrum of life that we become entranced, then fail to see the beauty of life and love around us.
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…aroma of coffee perking, as the alarm buzzed loudly. Elsa knew it was time to get out of bed, but she laid there thinking, with her eyes closed, before turning the alarm off. She loved the bookstore downstairs…
By Nancy Lou Henderson
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