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Category Archives: reading
For Your Listening Pleasure
Ten of my short stories are now available as audio books on Audible! Several of the stories were published almost 20 years ago, and the others more recently. It’s wonderful to hear talented narrators bring new life to words I first heard only in my imagination. I’ve read many of these aloud myself, so I’m used to them as “mine” — hearing them anew makes them work as stories. Not just my stories, but stories out there in the world. For that, I’m grateful. Last night I drove from Rainbow Grocery to the Sutter-Stockton garage in about 18 minutes, just … Continue reading
(You must realize)
…that when he looked, and she looked up at him, their looks so merged in one the world outside grew vacant, suddenly, and all things being seen, endured and done were crowded into them: just she and he… here at the point and at this point alone:- see, this arouses fear. Such fear both knew. When I first encountered those words, my body thrummed. I was weeping without having realized I was moved. I had found my way home. This happened in 1996, at a small church in Berkeley, California, and the words were spoken as part of the sermon. … Continue reading
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Story of an Ending*
Halfway through the year, a visitor appeared to a teenaged girl. This was no ordinary visitor. The visitor greeted the girl, who was perplexed, even troubled, by the greeting. Why had this extraordinary visitor come? Don’t be afraid, the visitor told her, and then went on to say that the girl had found favor with God and would conceive and bear a son. The visitor told her the son’s name and predicted greatness for him—a throne, even. This troubled the girl even further. She’d never slept with a man, as she pointed out to the visitor—how could she conceive? And, … Continue reading
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Tagged angel Gabriel, annunciation, conflict in narrative, Elizabeth, Eva Bovenzi, Fra Angelico, gospel of Luke, Lindsey Crittenden, Luke 1:26-38, Mary, Messenger paintings, narrative craft, San Marco, The Water Will Hold You, Virgin Mary, Zechariah
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