The tower clock of Saint Paul's is stopped at 5 to 10. Two battered and smoke-drenched
flags move gently in the breeze. One is Old Glory; the other is unrecognizable. A side door of …

Return to January 22, 2002 Table of Contents mumbled my good-byes to the couple. Mr.
Kraatz moved to his wife's side to embrace her. The door to their lives was now closed to me …

Summer chanted its swan song and the trees expired in flaming glory. As if to accompany
the dirge, the hurdy-gurdy ground a Neapolitan caraonetta of love's fragility and the children …

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I see him that first morning chopping canes and say to myself,“yes Father God, that is the
man I want.” To see him muscles moving with that cutlass; I couldn't help but stand under the …

Jill Patterson The large bells echoed off of the stone pavement of the village. That meant the
decision had been made. The bells chime once a year for Deliberation Day. The village's …

Like two birds siing on a wire in the bright blue of a new day, I can't find your face, the
distance too far to cover. I might be alone one night, walking in the woods, and find a pair of …

WHEN I RETURNED from nay mission, the sky was cloudless over Utah. I felt like a full seed
flung between earth and heaven on my way toward becoming a sexual being. I would soon …