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Dantelle in Spring, 2016
Dantelle in Spring, 2016 By Jeffrey Allen Mays Dantelle walks, almost hovers, beside a whitecapped river that chuckles and flashes in the morning light. She blesses the cantos of the doves and whippoorwills, the regular bursts of knocking from a distant woodpecker,...
The Parable of the Five Kinds of Soil
The Mystic spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “A Sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell upon soil depleted due to overharvesting, and the seed never germinated because it could get no nutrients. Some seed fell where the soil was sown with...
Departed mother
My mother passed away a week ago. I normally avoid the phrase 'passed away' because I don't see anything wrong with saying 'she died,' but I know that some people are more sensitive than I am. Since that morning last Monday, I have had many wonderful friends and...
Review of Lacunae published by Radix
I am pleased to announce that, after some unfortunate delays, my review of Scott Cairns' 2023 book Lacunae has been published by Radix Magazine. I love this book and I've read it over and over. Scott has been writing and poetry since the early 80's. He is an amazing...
Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain – it may not be what you think
This document is now a PDF in my Writings menu. You may access at this link: The 4th Commandment is widely misunderstood
NIHILO now available in audio
Hello friends, I have had many people tell me that they are not readers, but if I created an audiobook or audio short story, they would love to listen to it in the car on the way to work. Well your wish has been fulfilled. My first audio recording of the story...
So much for professional
https://youtu.be/HRCZ_VuCVik
Becoming More Professional
Hey friends, If you haven't heard yet, I have recently taken my writing to the next level by getting a "Substack." That is a new service that I will be using to communicate with my subscribers and especially those who wish to sponsor my writing endeavors. The site is...
Hiatus for Saragossa
Hello to the four or five of you who have been reading along with me as I have been serially publishing installments of The Saragossa Bottling Company. I have pushed myself since October of 2022 to have a chapter ready by Sunday at 11 a.m. every week, and have only...
The Saragossa Bottling Company – page 42
Ringo’s luck at dodging bullets had not changed. In the fusillade of munitions that bombarded the house in those pre-dawn moments, he took a bullet through the fleshy part of his left inner thigh. The blood poured so fast from the wound that he would have been dead in...
