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They sat for a long while before silence broke. She looked right, left, then put her fingers to her lips as she looked up with tears in her ...

Kit was 11 at the time, and it was just before Dad's 60th birthday. We'd not been back long from Sunday service, when Dad asked Kit ...

After being introduced by Professor Guerrero, the old journalist casually leaned back against the chalkboard with arms crossed and looked ov...

after the funeral of the old priest, two fellow priests dutifully sorted through his meager belongings. they found a torn paper yellowed wit...

A young lady in the back row stood up and asked the professor, 'What types of doctrines do you think currently effect the situation in ...

This unusually expressive monk finished reading and said, ‘God spoke "Let there be light." Sound illuminates!’ The monk noticed Gr...

As was his particular habit the first evening of each school year, the portly Headmaster strolled with imposing presence and measured footfa...

[a true story] There was once a man deeply troubled in love who earnestly asked Heaven to send him the highest angel to help. Then one night...

'The world has changed. There are few occupations that exist in this day requiring men of the old order. Few jobs still require the raw ...

Grandpa was a lean, hearty man with a 'no-one's fool' gentleness, schooled in common sense and the results of reasoned efforts f...

Gretchen sat down after checking in at the flight counter and looked contemplatively out through the great glass windows of the airport corr...

He looked over the top of the magazine he was reading and added, 'After 30 years of practice, Freud couldn't figure out what women w...

The young woman suddenly said in a tone of emphatic disgust, 'Words mean nothing.' The old gentleman looked across her face, then in...

She looked me studiously in the eyes and asked, "Is the sum greater than the whole?" Caught off guard by the sudden turn in our co...

An angel suddenly appeared to a man in the middle of the night and declared, "Death is immanent. Choose now before you die: repent or f...

The corporation had been too long in grave financial trouble. Eventually the board did what it must do and sacked the CEO. After scouring fo...

[written at mystique cafe in a country far, far away on a lonely, gray day] Gretchen and I were traveling through the Holland countryside on...

[my rendering of an old tale] L ong, long ago, deep in a forest a league or more from the earls's great castle was a little humble rusti...

There once was a tree regarded by the other trees in the forest to be mighty in stature and magnificent in form. With each new spring, he ap...

The old Zen master asked, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The young village boy shrugged his shoulders and replied, ...