Ben was distracted during Mass. It almost never happened, and when it did it was never on purpose. But he found himself unable to concentrate on this particular Sunday. He had come to the Cathedral of Saint Andrew early, as he did every Sunday, to say the Holy Rosary, recite the Divine Praises, and pray before the Blessed Sacrament. This was the ( Read more... )

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The cherry blossom made no sound as it fell from the tree. It glided with grace in whirls and arcs; its descent accented by minute eddies of the breeze, but its destination nonetheless certain. It twirled and flipped as it fell, but fall it did, coming to rest as soundlessly as it had fallen on the small bed of pebbles below. The only sound to be ( Read more... )

It was muggy as hell out on the front porch. Bugs buzzed purposefully, darting from one end of the porch to the other in seeming kamikaze runs, only to make a wide arc around the worn wooden pillars that supported the veranda of the old Victorian home. The house itself, once a luscious rose red, had faded with time and weather to a rosy rust. The ( Read more... )

There was an eerie blue light in the window. It reflected off of the thin white curtains which billowed softly, giving them the airy appearance of hovering spirits with an otherworldly glow. Mr. Burns knew that it was just the light of the full moon reflecting off the soft sky-blue colored walls of his hospital room, but as the gentle wirr of the ( Read more... )

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Before I begin, I know that there are those of you who will read this who are real, bonifide scientists who work in laboratories and know more about this stuff than I do. Please correct me on any of this that I get wrong. That said, I've been thinking in a scientific vein lately. Specifically, some implications of certain scientific laws and ( Read more... )