Category: Free write Friday

Salvation is Quiet

It started noisily, with a BANG. Or if a more intimate metaphor suits you, it began with a holy word from a timeless Lord of hosts, then returned to quiet. The infection simmered in silence, unnoticed at first, and still to this day, prolific as it is, it […]

Please Help Me

I did some work years ago at an elderly home; Shady Acres, the guys and I used to call it, even though it wasn’t really named that. We were updating the electrical in parts of the building. There were worse places to work. Some of the old folks […]

The Trust Itch

The forever cliché,You can’t trust (fill in the blank), is cliché for a reason. Because for many, it’s true. And what happens when the blank is filled with so many persons and entities that the untrustworthiness of the world overwhelms a person? It happened to Henry, beginning with […]