A Strange Encounter
Posted September 15, 2009 – 5:38 am in: TalesI don’t for one minute think anyone will believe this. But it really happened, and it happened just the way I will relate it to you.
Last fall, I entered a small used bookstore in Goshen on a Saturday afternoon. It was raining lightly and the wind was blowing when I walked through the door. I [...]
A Novel’s Chapter 1: Part 4
Posted July 8, 2009 – 9:37 pm in: TalesPart 1 can be found here.
Part 2 can be found here.
Part 3 can be found here.
Ivan was ready to throw. Only he, Whitey, and I knew what the pitch would be. I had seen several knuckle balls thrown before, but never by anyone pitching in a game I was in. I knew that Ivan was [...]
A Novel’s Chapter 1: Part 3
Posted July 7, 2009 – 8:51 pm in: TalesPart 1 can be found here.
Part 2 can be found here.
Toby’s bat hit Ivan’s ball at about the same instant that Ivan went down. A peculiar sound came out of the impact. It reminded me of two sounds, that of a pistol shot and that of a short scream from a screech owl, mixed together. [...]
A Novel’s Chapter 1: Part 2
Posted July 6, 2009 – 9:12 pm in: TalesPart 1 can be found here.
Ivan, acknowledging their animosity, tipped his cap to the Deer Lake section, which consisted of about two hundred people standing along the first base line behind the Deer Lake bench. This act brought more Deer Lake fans to life, and more hoots and boos followed. Peach Wiggins, our coach and [...]
A Novel’s Chapter 1: Part 1
Posted July 5, 2009 – 8:55 pm in: TalesThis entry, and some to follow, is a portion of Chapter 1 of a novel I’ve worked on over the years. I’m not saying how many years, but it’s more than two or three. At any rate, I am considering one more attempt to wrap the thing up, and would appreciate comments from readers. Here [...]
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Posted June 27, 2009 – 8:01 pm in: TalesChapter 1 can be found here.
Chapter 2 can be found here.
Chapter 3 can be found here.
Chapter 4 can be found here.
Kron was able, by the time the earth had turned this portion of itself into darkness, to have walked a good long distance, not completely making up for his forced delay but helping to expend [...]
Revelation in Moonlight: Chapter 4
Posted June 26, 2009 – 10:11 pm in: TalesChapter 1 can be found here.
Chapter 2 can be found here.
Chapter 3 can be found here.
Outside the fence, in every direction, people were on the ground, some weeping uncontrollably. Others who had been there longer were slightly less emotional. Some were chanting prayers, most of which were barely audible private ones, addressed to Greev about [...]
Revelation in Moonlight: Chapter 3
Posted June 25, 2009 – 8:57 pm in: TalesChapter 1 can be found here.
Chapter 2 can be found here.
Kron, not participating in the turbulent demonstration, only drew further attention to himself. It was now that he realized, when the cries and involuntary gestures of euphoria ceased, that he had worked himself into a precarious situation. He had stupidly allowed his impatience with the [...]
Revelation in Moonlight: Chapter 2
Posted June 24, 2009 – 6:56 pm in: TalesChapter 1 can be found here.
During the past few hours of his journey, Kron had overheard that the manifestation of divineness could be seen near a village called Lampsack, at the foot of a hill. Carinberry trees grew there, and among the others but next to the road stood the one that had been blessed [...]
Revelation in Moonlight: Chapter 1
Posted June 23, 2009 – 9:30 pm in: TalesAcross a land called Bornovash, where hills and mountains and rivers are formidable impediments to the movement of people, an ancient road is a single binding thread. It has been woven by the feet of countless travelers over many centuries, laced into the soil and rock in a winding course like a river, for its [...]
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