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Phantom Limb

A Story by Phillip W Parsons

She place the stone onto my hand. It was far heavier than its size let on. I hefted it a few times and thought about its purpose. Who could have crea..

Working The Line

A Story by Phillip W Parsons

There are four of us in this family and we are all in a line. Not any line you could see but a line nonetheless. Our paces are determined by age and ..

Entanglements

A Story by Phillip W Parsons

The door to the ladies room opened and she walked out, not at first seeing him waiting for her outside the mop closet. Their eyes met but she could n..

Hallelujah

A Story by Phillip W Parsons

There it was! The snag! No further to go until we overcame this one problem. The car sat on the side of the road, hood open, steam roiling out into t..

The Bones Of Gravity

A Story by Phillip W Parsons

"Is everything alright?" she called from the portal. "What do you see?" There was a long pause and then a voice answered as if from very far away. "N..

The Widow's Clock

A Story by Phillip W Parsons

I was attempting to create a composition that involved all four seasons. The plan was to do it without mentioning the seasons by name but, like most ..

Sand

A Poem by Phillip W Parsons

Hourglass shape I waitAs we all doThere are many ways to count timeBut none so vicious and visual, relentless as thisGrains of sand act as both solid ..

Sleeps The Bear

A Story by Phillip W Parsons

The Volcano slept high above the village, dormant and unworshipped. A single cloud stuck on the peak like a skirt snagged on a fence-nail. It pulled ..

Bloom

A Story by Phillip W Parsons

The flowers of the field bloomed all in a single day. So joyous were the children that they could not be contained within classrooms. Running and scr..

We, Her Children

A Poem by Phillip W Parsons

With fiery expansion, the soul, a furnaceBurning too quickly to lastThe oxygen consumed with a prolonged inhalationAnd a knowledge that we, her childr..