a sprinkle of faith

Tag: stories

  • Eternally Yours

    Eternally Yours

    Stories We Tell A Fictional Series At the age of twenty-two, I was weeks away from marrying Dylan – a young man I had been engaged to for a year – when he had sex with another woman.  The two were found in the cloakroom of Eleven Palms – an upscale restaurant that we had…

  • Mothers & Daughters

    Stories We Tell A Fictional Series I worried about Delilah when she was young. After Ben, Dizzy and David’s foster son, moved away to be with his father, she moped around for an entire summer. When she went back to school, I was pleased to see that the moping had stopped – but there was…

  • The Release

    The Release

    Stories We Tell A Fictional Series When Delilah was about three or four, I lost her in the grocery store. I found her – thank God – and the whole ordeal makes for an amusing anecdote, but that’s not the story I want to share at the moment.  After I told Levi what had happened,…

  • Richer Stories

    Stories We Tell A Fictional Series Having two brothers who were not much younger than many of my friend’s parents, it stands to reason that I had a niece and nephew before I graduated from junior high. It was pretty cool to call myself an aunt, because it was like some weird rite of passage.…

  • Coolest Chick Ever

    Coolest Chick Ever

    Stories We Tell A Fictional Series I’ll never forget the first time I fell in love. I’d known her for what seemed like forever, but I’d never really noticed her. Not that way. Levi was cute, don’t get me wrong, but she was my baby sister’s best friend and she was like a part of…

  • It’s All Mathematical

    It’s All Mathematical

    A Bit of Fiction & Illustration The other passengers sat back, watching, listening, and moving in sync as the two women gave an impressive, but modest, performance. “That was beautiful Isabella,” applauded a man who stood nearby. “And Lina, you move so gracefully… a superb combination of rhythm and mathematics.” “Thank you Hugo,” Lina said,…