When she was seventeen, Eve found she could spin vapor thread from water, with a glimmer of light for a spindle. She could twist and filigree threads of vapor along her breath to patterns she saw in her dreams, and tether the apparitions to moonbeams – lighter than air and all the colors of stained […]
Me and My Drum
“Come,” they told me. The three strangers passing through my city that night. They stopped to listen as I played my Derbekkeh, my hand drum. My only possession. It isn’t much, but it is all that I have. And it is my hope of a future. I make noise to make my living. “Come?” I […]
A Christmas Gift: Reader’s Theater “Why the Chimes Rang”
Among the many things I love about Christmas is the way it brings families together. If you’re Way Up North like I am, this coming together is usually a result of a snowstorm-imposed quarantine. In other places, it’s under other, warmer, circumstances. Man, I envy you people … Regardless, the whole houseful-of-folks experience is part […]
Little Orpheus
EDITOR’S NOTE: After you read this lovely story, scroll down to download Jamin Still’s magical painting as a free wallpaper. All that his unquelled grief bestowed, and love, that doubles grief -Boethius In a tower, in a village, in a kingdom by the sea, was a lyre unlike any other. Over the door of the […]
Me and My Drum
“Come,” they told me. The three strangers passing through my city that night. They stopped to listen as I played my Derbekkeh, my hand drum. My only possession. It isn’t much, but it is all that I have. And it is my hope of a future. I make noise to make my living. “Come?” I […]
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