Since this story is related to the Bible, we decided to include it among short Christmas stories.Corinne was a little girl who was all alone in the world. Her father and mother were both dead. Corinne was so poor that she no longer had a room to live in; neither did she have a ...
When I was younger, I always went to church. And when I got old enough, I even went to bible studies and youth groups. But once I got into playing sports and having games on weekends, I stopped going. I felt like sports was more important, and it wasn’t. When I was a freshman,...
The Bible story of Martha, Mary and Lazarus transposed to modern New York. ‘Pluck’, in The Dublin Review (Autumn 2002); collected in Touchy Subjects. Focusing an Irishman’s panic over a hair on his girlfriend’s chin, this is the story on which I based my short film of the same ...
” The church, where my parents met in the choir, was the center of our social life. We attended services Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night prayer meeting. We had Sunday night potlucks and summer Bible School. We didn’t go to movies on Sunday. So you might think we ...
name: “The green eyes gazing from the man’s leathery face looked somehow odd, and his black beard bristled like spines. The backs of his hands were rough and scaly like the skin of a garfish, and the boy thought,Bon Dieu, in the East he caught leprosy, just like in the Bible!