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Penance
Trig pads across the carpet until he stands a long step from David’s feet. David lets his head roll to one side and gazes silently at Trig for a long moment. I look at Trig, too. The muscles in his throat twitch and his eyes seem focused on empty space. For just a second the tip of his tongue flickers over his lower lip then disappears as he presses his lips together, muscles tensing along his jaw.
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Secrets to Keep
There were bruises on my hands. I wasn’t to write with my left. I knew it but I forgot. At least I think I forgot. Maybe I was just angry. First grade isn’t for babies. Only babies switch hands when they write. I was to use my right hand. The ruler stung the backs of my hands to remind me when I forgot. Or maybe when I was angry.
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Quote of the Day – August 6, 2012
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being. ~Hafiz of Persia
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A Child’s Prayer – Constrained Writing (CW) – Drabble
This is where God lives I thought stepping inside.
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Quote of the Day – August 5, 2012
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese
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Book Review – The Passage
The passage: a novelJustin Cronin; Ballantine Books 2011WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder A government experiment with a virus that causes human mutation goes wrong. A hundred years later, humanity survives only in isolated, defensive pockets holding back the “virals” and its last hope is a little girl who was the government’s final experiment.
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Quote of the Day – August 4, 2012
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Monster
You called me a monster when you found out, found out that I like hurting men.
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I’ve Moved!
WordPress glitched out on me and suspended my blog for a week. They’ve resolved things now, but in the intervening time I decided it wasn’t worth the frustration and migrated onto my own host… So here is my new location: www.sanctumia.com/blog/
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Quote of the Day – August 3, 2012
There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be. ~Leon Bloy