Tag: Short Story
The Name He Refused
A Short Story Inspired by John 1:19-20 The questions began before sunrise. Ethan Cole had grown accustomed to people stopping him after his community outreach events. Some wanted advice. Others wanted encouragement. A few simply wanted someone to listen. But lately, the attention had changed. Videos of Ethan helping homeless families had spread online. A...
The Line No One Could Cross
A Short Story Inspired by Job 1:12 The storm rolled into Cedar Ridge just before sunset. Dark clouds stacked themselves across the Missouri sky, and the wind bent the tops of the oak trees lining the highway. Most people hurried indoors, but Daniel Mercer remained on the roof of the old community center, trying to...
The Highway South
A Short Story Inspired by Matthew 2:14-15 The call came at 2:13 in the morning. Elias Mercer woke to the shrill vibration of his phone against the nightstand. For several seconds he stared into the darkness of the apartment, disoriented by the hour and the strange silence that filled the room. Beside him, his wife...
The Lights Above Mercer Street
A Short Story Inspired by Genesis 1:14-15 The power went out just after midnight. At first the city resisted the darkness. Backup signs flickered red over alley doors. Emergency lights glowed dimly in apartment stairwells. Car headlights crawled through intersections like uncertain insects. But one by one the smaller lights surrendered, and before long the...
The Last Bus Out of Winter
A Short Story Inspired by Matthew 2:13 The snow had been falling since late afternoon, thick enough now to bury the edges of the sidewalks and soften the hard outlines of the city. Nathan Reed stood beneath the flickering shelter light on Walnut Avenue with his collar raised high against the wind. Across the street,...
The Last Call Before Departure
A Short Story Inspired by Luke 9:61 Ethan Reeves stared at the glowing departure board while the rain pressed against the airport windows like restless fingers. Flights blinked in red and white across the screen, cities appearing and disappearing in an endless rhythm of leaving. Dallas. Seattle. Atlanta. Denver. Chicago — Boarding Soon. He tightened...
Get Minesweeper back on your PC and other stuff I wrote this week
It's been over a decade since Microsoft removed Minesweeper from Windows. If you don't go a single day without thinking about this loss you might want to read How to get Minesweeper and seven other classic games back in Windows 11 over at Lifehacker. Here's a few other things I published in the last week....