It was a time when vividly colored dragons and beautiful fairy princesses occupied the land. Good kings ruled their subjects fairly and evil was always soundly defeated. Little boys had their beanstalks, and geese laid golden eggs. Poverty was … [Read more...]

It was a year when Easter Sunday fell on the first night of Passover. Charlie was trying to figure out a good way to meld the two holidays together. The Silverman-Clarke family is a mixed-faith family, and the kids had reached the age where they were … [Read more...]

My mother used to ask me, “What is the most important part of the body?”Through the years, I would take a guess at what I thought was the correctanswer. When I was younger, I thought sound was very important to us ashumans, so I said, "My ears, … [Read more...]

Picture her. She’s one month past her second birthday. Strong little legs carrying her to and from every corner of her world. She’s curious and her forehead crinkles when a thought pops in her curly-haired head. Why? She points. Why? Why? Why, Why … [Read more...]

A daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon … [Read more...]

You might be one who would dismiss the country club set as people who are shallow, privileged and snobby. As usual with broad generalizations you’d be partially right and mostly wrong. A country club is typically a place centered around a golf … [Read more...]

She is just a little girl. Thirteen years old but nine inside, like a lot of middle schoolers. Experimenting with makeup, being flirted with but never actively flirting to the boys in her class. Insecure yet wearing a cocky attitude. That’s … [Read more...]

Dr. John Derry was an arrogant man. He belonged to that elite class of privileged white men who don’t break out of their circle. His back story is so stereotypical it’s almost a joke. John was born to Harrison and Elaine. Harrison was a captain of … [Read more...]

A little boy wanted to meet God. He thought it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips and a six-pack of root beer and started his journey. When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman. She … [Read more...]