Great grandfather, the patriarch, was simply called Jēṭhō (pronounced Yay-Tow and meaning The Eldest) “Jēṭhō, what is it? What do you see?” It wasn’t what he was seeing, but what he was hearing. The family, about 20 of them varying in age from 1 to 97, awoke to find Jēṭhō standing and steadying himself in […]
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Life’s losses accumulate, and greet me each time I wake. They long to infest my soul, affix themselves, and turn malignant. Each day is started on the emotional battle line, In the war for my fragile emotional state. I lie in my bed, eyes closed Silence without me, Battle cries and gnashing of teeth,
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He spent two days at the way station. This was a single room made of corrugated metal, but there was shade there, and he enjoyed it as long as he could. He usually had no shade. He now stood outside this metal enclosed room. The sun, which never set, hung perfectly above his head and
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The invading King awaited the return of two scouts who had been sent to attain the whereabouts of the Enemy’s King and kill him in his sleep. The invading King was in a camp with his main battalion. As his armies approached the Enemy King’s front line, he had sent many scouting parties ahead to
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Benjamin was very worried. He sat at his mother’s bedroom window and thought as hard as any nine-year-old had ever thought. Although he loved her, he knew that his mother was very bad. Yesterday morning he couldn’t get her to wake up and, as he had been doing every few minutes since that time, he
“Go to sleep Mama, we will finish the work in the morning.” Yill was standing in the narrow entrance to his mother’s sleeping room. In his mind he thought of it as a “sleeping room”, but of course everyone’s definition of things rely on their own individual experience. In this case, a dirt floor, enclosed
To watch the Storyboard Theater Movie of this story CLICK HERE We find ourselves in Beijing China in the year 1422 AD. The Yongle Emperor (aka Chengzu or Yung Lo, r. 1403-1424 AD) was the third ruler of the Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD). When Chengzu’s son Hongxi (Hongxi means “heart” in Mandarin) was
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Author’s Note: Although this is a work fiction in the end, it is based on real life events. Mr. Bailey, she has a 95% chance of needing a liver transplant, and only a 2% chance of getting one. Being a numbers guy he tried to calculate the odds of his daughter surviving. He whispered to
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To watch the Storyboard Theater presentation of this story, CLICK HERE: Joshua and his youngest daughter, Rita, had spent the entire afternoon on the beach. And now at 5:05 PM, It was finally starting to cool off a little, which he liked very much. He had been sweating since he got here at 1
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The year is 1852 and The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, The Famine or The Irish Potato Famine, is ending. We are in the Irish village of Carrick-on-Shannon, which is nestled in Northern-Central Ireland, in the county of Leitrim. Many do not know that this “famine” was man-made, as English troops had
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