My little abode is a little less brighter today. You see, yesterday I packed away all of the Christmas decorations. Down came the tree with its multitudes of decorations, all glittery and wonderfully themeless. Down came the stockings and garland. Down came the wreaths and all the tchotchkes. Most importantly, down came all of the […]
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The Spirit of a Marine
I don’t remember where I first came up with this idea. As you know if you read my “About Me,” my father is a USMC veteran. So somehow, somewhere this story hatched. As I stated in the disclaimer above, I originally posted this on a blog called Short Stories, but want all of my works […]
New year, same old messy life
If the past few months have taught me anything, it is this: LIFE, even with the best intentions and plans, IS MESSY. Like the Christmas hymn reminds us…. the weary world is in sin and error pining for something better, something more. It seems no matter where one looks these days, there is hatred and […]
Love whispers
Unless you are living under a rock, you would know that Christmas, one of the celebrations that is central to much of the Western world, happened yesterday. Advent is over, the four weeks of hope, peace, joy and love culminating in the final night of light. But that doesn’t mean the themes should be neatly […]
So you’re one of THOSE “Christians”!
If you’ve followed my blog or any of my social medias, then this shouldn’t come as a surprise. I am a church-going, Jesus-following, God-loving Christian. Yet, in the past few months, I have been called un-Christian. I have been told I don’t go to a “Bible-believing church” because my church voted to be Open and […]
Zatanar – The Island
This is another story that came to me in a dream (always good to write down dreams!) It was intended to be a book, but I couldn’t figure out where to go after the second or third chapter. I’ll have to find the other chapters if I still have them….. As I stated in the […]
Extraordinary in Joy
We live in a world where often joy is sucked away by others, even if we try hard to keep it. Gatekeepers shoo away any of those who want to be part of fandoms of all sorts because they aren’t “enough.” Unhappy people say snide comments meant to deflate the bubbles of elation. Look at […]
I should be writing
I often chide myself because I haven’t been writing much. I should be writing, I think as I twist yarn around the pegs of my knitting loom, working on a hat for a friend for Christmas. I should be writing, I think as I do the chores that have been neglected for days around my […]
Waiting for peace
It was a year ago that the other half and I were stuck in a period of waiting. We were in the process of closing on our first house, this tiny abode in our little swath of the Midwest. The waiting period was anything but peaceful, as there were stresses, a portion of the roof […]
Surrounded by Love
This was just a simple story I wrote about part of a family that lived inside my head when I was a child and teenager, who once lived in a fictional city called Mesa, California. As stated in the disclaimer above, I originally posted this on a blog called Short Stories…. but I want all […]
K. S. Wood Writes 