We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it
Some claim heaven has streets of gold and all such things, but I hold a different notion. When we’re there, we’ll say to the angels, why, a lot of heaven’s glory was in the place we come from. And you...
What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less...
A small profit it better than a big loss
His great-aunt had been born on this land, lived on it eight decades, and knew it as well as she knew her husband and children. That was what she’d always claimed, and could tell you to the week when...
Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.
What about you, Snipes? Dunbar asked. You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?Snipes pondered the question a few moments before speaking.They's many a man of scien...
Then her mind had wandered into a place she could not follow, taking with it all the people she knew, their names and connections, whether they still lived or whether they’d died. But her body lingere...
You are not quite ready yet, though. For the next six months, practice until your arms ache and your lips bleed. The suffering will be good for you. A slight smile crossed the conductor's face. If you...
Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start
You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.
He’d watched the old man live his life by the signs. Whether a moon waxed or waned decided when the crops were planted and harvested, the hogs slaughtered and the timber cut, even when a hole was best...
She walks in beauty.
A copperhead lay coiled. Part of me not sight knew it was there. The atavistic like flint rock sparked. Amazon tribes see Venus in daylight. My grandfather needed no watch to tell time. What more migh...
The name's Old Testament derivation did not surprise him. Campbell's first name was Exra, and there was an Absalom and a Solomon in the camp. But no Lukes or Matthews, which Buchanan had once noted, t...
Rachel kneeled beside Jacob. She took the child's hand and pressed it to the dirt. Her father had told Rachel that Harmons had been on this land since before the Revolutionary War. Don't ever forget w...
Libenter homines id quad volunt credunt. Men are glad to believe that which they wish for? Miss Calicut asked. Professor
An image came back to him with such vividness that it might have been framed before him in glass
Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.
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