Tag: story

High-Rise (The Magician – Chapter Nineteen)

This is the nineteenth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click here to read the other chapters if you missed them or have no idea what this story is about. High-Rise Per her mother’s suggestion, Vanessa had spent the rest of Sunday afternoon holed up in her apartment, […]

Love thine enemy

It is super hard to be nice to people who are mean to us. Ask any person who works in customer service or retail and they will tell you so, since they are expected to be friendly even as anger and vitriol and snide comments are thrown their way. Between the entitlement stories and the […]

Blessed are….

In my fantastical adventurous Portals Series, there is an enemy to magic. It is not dark magic, for even sorcery has a place in my fictionalized world of portals and realms even as some look down their nose at it. It is rather an ideal, an entity called evil. Evil is twisted, created from the […]

Safehouse (The Magician – Chapter Eighteen)

This is the eighteenth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click here to read the other chapters if you missed them or have no idea what this story is about. Safehouse It took Vanessa a few hours to regroup and get herself back together. She had to chat […]

Recognition

This past Sunday, the tables in the narthex of one of the local churches in my little swath of the Midwest were full of people enjoying camaraderie and some scrumptious cheesecake and coffees. They all had something in common…. they all had volunteered to make this little swath of the Midwest a better place for […]

Is it lawful to do good?

“Jesus said to them, ‘I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to destroy it?” Luke 6:9 (NRSV) In the Christian Bible, Jesus spoke this after being questioned why he was healing a man on the day of rest. Those questioning him […]

A story ended

I had started to write a post about my crazy weekend, but the words have fallen flat in light of something that weighs heavily on my heart. You see, another in my circle has been taken away. This was a friend and cheerleader, a wonderful old soul that may have been short in stature, but […]

Questions (The Magician – Chapter Seventeen)

This is the seventeenth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click here to read the other chapters if you missed them. Questions Vanessa woke up in the old four poster bed in the guest bedroom of her grandmother’s home in the same bed in which she and Thora […]

Revealed…. or not…. we continue to write the story

Apocalyptic. That is one word that brings terror to some. After all, the apocalypse, according to the Christian Bible, is the final destruction of the world. Numerous people have predicted this event. Many have failed. But the word doesn’t mean all of this trepidation and finality. It doesn’t even have to be a scary word, even though it is. The […]