Saying a Prayer for the Christmas Meal The story of saying the prayer also deserves a special place among our short Christmas stories. Lee, A seven-year-old boy, was asked to say thanks for the Christmas dinner. The family members bowed their heads in expectation. Lee began his prayer, th...
“Thank you for bringing your relish,” Aunt Trish said, smiling. “It was really different, but in a good way. Can I ask you to bring it again for Christmas dinner? I think it would be perfect with the roast I’ll be serving. You just may have started a new family tradition.” ...
Her distress awoke a nausea in her body and she kept moving her lips in silent fervent prayer. A bell clanged upon her heart. She felt him seize her hand: “Come!” All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart. He was drawing her into them: he would drown her. She gripped w...
On a Sunday night there were a dinner party at the country club and a tryst at a roadside tourist cabin and a prayer meeting at the Lutheran Church and three drunks telling lies in the men’s room of the bus depot and a Negro child dying f leukemia on Jitney Street and a young coup...
I make sure no one can hear me, and I whisper a quiet prayer. “Dear God,” I can’t believe the words are coming out of my mouth, “if you’re really out there, please let my family have a normal Thanksgiving for once. Amen.” I clear my throat and leave my room, ready to...
drive. He kept mute. The children were worried but continued to fixate that all would be fine…Mom’s don’t die. The drive was long. They pulled into the parking area and sloshed toward the entry. Jack carried the CD player, Jenny the CD. Patrick carried them both in silent prayer....
Minnie smiles back at him and settles into the chair, relaxing in this gentle man’s company, saying a little prayer of thanksgiving. Leave a comment Drunk Just yesterday she’d said to herself: “Never again!” And now look what happened. She swore under her breath. ...
The movie's half-German, half-Saudi crew worked around the rhythms of Saudi life, using cellphone apps that alerted them of the five daily prayer calls. The Germans carried notebooks; the Saudis relied on oral planning.On the first day of shooting, a start time of 7:20 a.m. came and...
Ulaanbaatar is not a beautiful city by any means, although the large Buddhist temple on the hill, with its intricately carved gods, demons and prayer wheels draws the eye. Guarding this edifice are hulking stone lions with curly hair, whose gaping mouths are stuffed with real roasted meat on...
“Dinner For A Gentleman“ “Party of Boys“ “Jack The Ripper” — (Also inDark Tales). If not for the title, this story would be ambiguous. As it is, we can assume a man murders a teenage girl then goes home to his wife. The idea that murderers live quiet double lives in the...