But there was no prayer in Joel's mind; rather, nothing a net of words could capture, for, with one exception, all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say so...
of life and barely any time left on the clock. There was no hope except for a fools hope, and a stubborn fool at that. Kyle wasn’t about to give up and neither was Sheldon. Both men spoke the thought at the same time, their years together forming a bond that transcended words. ...
She lumbered down the service corridor and took the first corner that headed in the general direction of the security office. And the next. And the next. A spasm of pain rippled through her abdomen. She slipped in a puddle of something greasy leaking from a pipe overhead. Her knees crack...
Son of man, 20You cannot say, or guess, for you know onlyA heap of broken images, where the sun beats,And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,And the dry stone no sound of water. OnlyThere is shadow under this red rock, 25(Come in under the shadow of this red...
“If their group was more than we saw here the rest will resent us for killing them. That is the way of the world.” A brief sense of dread washed over Cassian at Verina’s words. Almost as soon as it rose it was swallowed up by anger that he had any sympathy for people who ...
What powerful words! I especially liked “Lanterns”. Thank you for sharing these with us. It is quite a vision in the mind’s eye when one stops to consider the horrifying numbers of people in other countries as well as our own that we have killed. Like Reply Kindly phrased comments we...
Contents Rio Grande's Last Race Now this was what Macpherson told By the Grey Gulf-water Far to the Northward there lies a land, With the Cattle The drought is down on field and flock, The First Surveyor `The opening of the railway line! -- the Governor
In the fall of 2015, as racially charged protests rippled across universities nationwide, from Yale to Missou to Pomona, the main campus of Calhoun Community College remained quiet. This February, when the Yale trustees voted to rename Calhoun College after a female pioneer, barely anyone in Dec...
And the penalty for the crime!” –When I had left, and the swinging trees Rang above me, as lauding her candid say, Another was I. Her words were enough: Came smooth, came rough, I felt I could live my day. Next night she died; and her obsequies In the Field of Tombs, by th...
Objectives Intonation may serve as a cue for facilitated recognition and processing of spoken words and it has been suggested that the pitch contour of spoken words is implicitly remembered. Thus, using the repetition suppression (RS) effect of BOLD-fMRI signals, we tested whether the same spoken...