Category: Fiction
Hume in Elfland
“We need this life of practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with...
The Oak on the Town Green
Yet they’d let the venerable oak in the center square, past which half the townsfolk walked any given day of the week, get so wracked and choked with saplings and briar that a Woodshirk had appeared in it.
This was a disaster.
To Live Dangerously or Die Trying
An unwanted party guest attempts to defile an imaginative dinner party of classical thinkers who are presumably friends as they discover the happiness within.
My Favorite Things
Ash fell like snow on the black walnut tree across the street. Diana peered at it through the...
Excerpt from Strength in Weakness: Myth Reimagined
Epigraph Theseus, Great and Mighty! Can you hear it in your sleep? As you rest in foolish pride,...
Echo and Narcissus – A Modern Reimagining
A Note on Holly Ordway and Fiction When I enrolled as a student at Houston Baptist University to...
This Captain, Buffeted
Chapter One of Griff Harrows: Told You No Lie ‘A fugitive, this captain, buffeted’ Virgil, The...
Wanted
“Please enter a name for your creation.” Lyla’s skin prickled with a million tiny goose pimples at...
The Kingdom of Kings and Queens: A Parable
From a distant, war-plagued land, a lone traveler set out to find a safer place to live. Carrying...
The Voyage of the Titan
“It could never happen here.” Thomas was aghast. Although he was typically quite...
The Adventures of Asher Svenson: Story Two: A Feast of Fishes
While camping at the coast, A young man met a mysterious host, A pelican full of wisdom and...
Light in the Darkness
(Inspired by the true story of Charlotte Thomason which you can read at charlottethomason.com) The...
The Armor of the Dragon: Chapter One: What Grew in the Garden
In a small town in Japan, the Chinese Dragon caught the people that lived there. It invisibly...
Messiah
Joshua sprinted down the access hallway of the Aeneas as fast as his old legs could carry him....
Quarantine
The traveler’s wife had never known true fear and loneliness until her husband went down to the...
The Adventures of Asher Svenson: Story One: The Secret Wood
A young man, a rugged youth, Sought to find the truth Of a mysterious wood – In the midst of which...
Vortex: A Short Story
“I can’t go camping with you guys, Claire,” I stutter. “I don’t have any gear. I – I would just get in your way.”
Devouring Reason – The Myth of Arachne Retold
“If a man feels that all the movements of his own mind are meaningless, then his mind is...
Dry Bones
(Written in honor of the city of Santa Fe, TX.) Aksana sat on the edge of the outcropping and...
By Their Fruit: An Allegorical Tale
Once there was a cobbler named Tom. He lived in a small cottage in a little garden on the end of a large city known for the beautiful fruits and vegetables sold in its marketplace.
