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One Smile Away

I am overwhelmed By every glance from you Overcome By attention never anticipated I am overrun By thoughts of what could be And completely overtaken By the memory Of the…

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13/10/2019
Blog, Short Story

Prodigal Thoughts

    I can’t recall my father’s last words to me. All I remember about that day is how my eyes were full of the open road and the longings…

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10/05/2019
Blog, Short Story

The Parable of Time’s Redemption

[I consider this to be my first decent short story.  When I finished it, I felt I had grown much as a writer though I was cognizant (and still am)…

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25/05/2019

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  • Blog,  Short Story

    The Gloaming (Short Story Version- Part V)

    Christopher Francis / 06/06/2020 / 0 Comments

    Part V:  Evening’s Rest and Rebirth   My thoughts are interrupted by a strange and benevolent voice. “Why are you troubled?” the physician asks tenderly. I find little courage to answer for obviously…

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  • Blog,  Short Story

    The Gloaming (Short Story Version- Part IV)

    Christopher Francis / 04/06/2020 / 0 Comments

      Part IV:  The Gloaming Each step becomes heavier than the last.  The setting of the sun begins in earnest, seemingly outpacing my efforts to outrun it.  The wind picks up, carrying with…

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  • Blog,  Short Story

    The Gloaming (Short Story Version- Part III)

    Christopher Francis / 02/06/2020 / 0 Comments

    Part III:  A Key Conversation   The next town is so near I can hear some commotion overtaking my own thoughts. “What’s going on here?” I manage to ask as I stumble upon…

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  • Blog,  Short Story

    The Gloaming (Short Story Version- Part II)

    Christopher Francis / 31/05/2020 / 0 Comments

    Part II: Noonday Strivings Whatever hope I found lying alongside the road earlier today is beginning to dissipate in the heat of the noonday sun and the scorn of passersby. Though not an…

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  • Blog,  Short Story

    The Gloaming (Short Story Version- Part I)

    Christopher Francis / 29/05/2020 / 0 Comments

    Part I:  Morning’s Choice Though my eyes found little sleep, I arose early this morning, finding a bit of optimism with the first rays of sun on my face.  The pain of my…

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  • Blog,  Short Story

    The Gloaming (Short Story Version- Preface)

    Christopher Francis / 27/05/2020 / 0 Comments

    (This is a short story I started many years ago based on Luke 4:40.  It is meant to provide hope for those in desperate situations, even “when the sun is setting…”  It will…

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  • Biblical Commentary,  Blog

    The Redemption of Loneliness- Part II

    Christopher Francis / 30/04/2020 / 0 Comments

      Just where can we begin to find out if any good can come from loneliness?  I assert that the place to start is by examining the most lonely experience this earth has…

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  • Biblical Commentary,  Blog

    The Redemption of Loneliness- Part I

    Christopher Francis / 26/04/2020 / 4 Comments

        Loneliness can be more constant a companion than those expected to be its demise.  Many of us assume we know the definition of loneliness, as if we memorized its meaning the…

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  • Biblical Commentary,  Blog

    Thoughts on Isaiah 42:16

    Christopher Francis / 21/04/2020 / 2 Comments

      Isaiah 42:16:  And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known:  I will make darkness light before…

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  • Blog,  Poetry

    The Gloaming (Poetry Version)

    Christopher Francis / 05/04/2020 / 0 Comments

    In the twilight of faith In a darkening hour When the wick is all but spent I have become A reed bruised But not quite bent. With pain that screams louder Than the…

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