Buck followed, having nowhere else to go. He glanced around at the filth and total confusion of the tiny place divided by a soiled and torn old quilt. The walls moved with bugs in the flickering candlelight. Fred grabbed at Ginny, who wore a threadbare wrapper. She had a wonderfully white and soft-looking body, Buck…
Tag: 19th century
What is Juneteenth?
WHAT IS JUNETEENTH? FOOD TO CELEBRATE FREEDOM
Fiction: Into the Gloaming
“So now you give up and hide behind your little Bible studies and weird friends? You heap embarrassment upon the whole family. What will our friends at West Point say?” “You’re no embarrassment, Buck,” Graham said. “It’s only that you’re lost in there somewhere behind those bandages. And you’re right to say I was never…
“There are some men and some women in whose company we are always at our best. While with them we cannot think mean thoughts or speak ungenerous words…
…Their mere presence is elevation, purification, sanctity. All the best stops in our nature are drawn out by their intercourse, and we find a music in our souls that was never there before.” – Henry Drummond George Muller’s father was a tax collector. By the age of ten young George was an expert thief, liar…
Family Histories: An Unseemly Belch
There was a fleeting satisfaction when he interrupted the merry mood with an unseemly belch. Yes, it had been on purpose.
9 Signs You May Have Mistakenly Joined a Dystopian/Utopian Community
“I had staked no valuable amount of hope or fear; it had enabled me to pass the summer in a novel and agreeable way, [and] afforded me some grotesque specimens of artificial simplicity.”
My Life Mission Is Soon To Be Accomplished
MY MESSAGE TO EVERYONE is to NEVER STOP SEEKING PURPOSE! Never settle for what others think is enough for you.
What They Listened To: 1866
As many of you know MY NOVELS are set in Civil War and post-Civil War America. I thought it would be fun each week to focus on a different year of music from 1860-1900. Maybe my characters were listening to these songs back in the day. ENJOY.
Fiction: The Morning After Pill
“Have you got any spells maybe?” Thankful eyed the mantle full of skulls and glass balls.
Thoughts on Romantic Reformers
“When the romantic fails to illuminate or enlighten others, and when social reform is slow to come—or seems not to come at all—then he or she can only resort to violence.” The Nation review of Man’s Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War by Philip F. Gura “They have no heart,…
