by jeffrey | Mar 17, 2026 | Fiction, Real Life
Here are three more shorts written in under 15 minutes each at meetings with a Writer’s Group I belong to. 1. Write about your favorite character in literature entering a library or book store (John Grady Cole, the young protagonist from All The Pretty Horses)...
by jeffrey | Mar 3, 2026 | Fiction
11/19/24 Prompt: Write about something you’ve never done before. (15 minutes) Grayson sat in the kitchen in his boxers and moth-worn undershirt with a fresh cup of coffee, alternately blowing gently across the steaming surface and slurping a tiny sip, risking...
by jeffrey | Jan 25, 2026 | Fiction
The Mystic told this story: Two people went up to the holy grounds to pray, a Christian nationalist and a lesbian. The first stood by himself with his hands held up to the sky and said, “Lord, I thank you that you have made me upright and holy, not like this lesbian....
by jeffrey | Apr 21, 2025 | Fiction, Real Life
Writing a modernized account of the biblical gospel comes with a new challenge I’ve never encountered in fiction writing. I continue to add material to my forthcoming book Blue Gospel, and I’ve recently added an account of the central figure’s birth...
by jeffrey | Dec 6, 2024 | Fiction, Uncategorized
On the day Jesus returned to earth, I was at my desk laboring to finish a novel that I hoped would get me hooked up with a new agent, who could help me find me a publisher, and jumpstart my writing career which was all but dead after the lackluster showing of my debut...
by jeffrey | Oct 31, 2024 | Fiction
Dantelle in Spring, 2015 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,...
