Be Loud Be Proud

The following is an excerpt from an article I wrote for RISE, my church.  It’s my reflection upon Shenandoah Valley’s First Pride festival. I felt confident I could do it.  After all, they had said, “Just show up…hand out stickers…hand out freeze-pops…and no words required.”  “No words” appealed greatly to my introverted self, so Corinne…

In Time…Who’s going to remember?

The Literary Lion Challenge:  The word is ‘time’.   As always you have seven days to create a flash fiction story in 400 words or less.  Check out this link to learn more. Had he done the right thing? He could not rid himself of the question. It gnawed him like a hungry rat. This agony was…

Aren’t We All Sodomites?

When Corinne and I fell in love and decided to become a couple, one of her friends, supposedly a good christian, tapped his foot against the wall of Corinne’s office as if shaking the dust from his shoes.  This was done to represent his disapproval of our relationship.  In essence he was saying to us,…