philosophy - Stories

A step-by-step course to teach yourself the art of Writing Poetry

A different understanding of the purpose of life and interaction with the beyond. This is a short novella.

Kenny Clark has a crush on his best friend Brandon.

Winifred Barrett is good. She was brought in to help meld two corporate identities into one, and winds up taking on more and more responsibilities. Could a career woman back then have it all? One would think not….

Through a series of her letters and journal entries, we learn the answer.

a poem

A brief encounter in a bar, but one that turns out to be uniting in spirit.

1845. In the spring Redburn leaves Peru for New York on a warship. He has nothing, and feels like a failure. Worst of all is the loss he leaves behind him in the Pacific – his husband is dead, and Toby is lost and presumably long buried. What awaits him in the fall when he arrives back 'home,' to a place he has not been for four years? There he must consider what his brother wants for him, against how Redburn might honor the noblest sacrifices of the men who love him have made.

Everyone knows what Christmas is about. Jesus, of course, some say. Excessive consumerism, others reply. But is that really all there is to it? Two young teens learn that it might be more than that.
A short story for reflection.

Flash Fiction Piece --- pondering the afterlife

The veil between people is thinnest at certain times of the year. This collection of Short Stories explores what we call 'Holidays.'