Moments ago I was lying there in my big feather bed, nursing my enfeeblement, when a knock comes at the door. Next thing I know, I’m nothing but this here chunk of nibbled meat in a jar watching my granddaughter lying there in bed chatting it up with a werewolf like she’s hanging with her […]
Author: graowf
Hansel and Gretel in Two Sentences
I had it down to a science: bait ’em in with gingerbread walls and lollipop fence posts, cram them in the pantry, then back ’em when they ripen. Now, thanks to that clever, goody-goody Gretel and her dumb lout of a brother Hansel, my arms are sticks of shriveled jerky and the whole cottage will […]
Another Two Sentence Story
The two-sentence version: I swam for hours upstream against the raging current. I’d have made it, too, if it weren’t for that cuss of a bear and his wicked, yellow teeth at the waterfall. And as a haiku: Against the current swim upstream passionately fanged by a bear
My First Two Sentence Story
Here is my first attempt at writing a story in two sentences: I walk, for now undetected, with a mimic of their emotionless countenance set like chiseled flint on my face while the terror in my heart races beneath the drab, gray, requisite coveralls. The cold, unforgiving sidewalk provides the solution: fill the empty cavities […]
Kinds of Writers
So I was poking around on the FA Forums to kill a few minutes, and I ran across this 3-month-old thread about how much description in writing, which caught my attention because I’d been thinking about it lately. I thought this post by Ursa Maximus was really well put: I think above all else, an […]
My Complaint
This: One of the prices of modern life is that while we have more things than ever, we have less leisure than our grandparents did. When my grandfather left each day’s work as an inventor for Brach’s Candy Company at approximately 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, he left his work at work. He may have […]
God Has Even Blessed Death
It has been clear to me for some time that all evil that man and demon perpetrate is turned to some greater good by God. He excels at that. We do not always see it, but when I do, I am always amazed. Ran across this quote: … so also has the Devil, the father […]
Good?
Saw this on social media, posted by an atheist, presumably to take a stab at us Christians: If you’re good because you fear hell, you’re not good. To which I reply, “What is meant by ‘good’?” This is the fundamental problem with attacking morality and then claiming there is nothing fixed from which morality derives. […]
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A Thought About Connections
In a brief exchange in some comments, I had this to say which I wanted to save, so here it is: The idea of the origin of a new species via random gene mutations and natural selection is hard pill to swallow. I don’t find evolutionary theory is anywhere near convincing: as a hypothetical speculation […]