While I was looking at my phone God told me: ‘Take your eyes off your phone, my girl. Take your eyes off your phone and look around.’ If you do it, you will see an old man sitting on a bench, feeding the pigeons. He has an ache or two…

My essence is my actions I was challenged to present myself through my deeds by Terry Pottinger, whose beautiful answer to the same topic you can read here: “We Are What We Repeatedly Do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” ~Aristotlemedium.com Well, let’s see what I am. I repeatedly smile, so I’m a bride-to-be in a hand-made wedding dress. I repeatedly cry, so…

They like to pose for her My little Lilly is in love with cats. She has four of them in her room. A tiger, a lion, a cheetah, and a domestic cat. They are her best friends. She is their mom and their protector. She is so concerned for their…

Is waiting for you on the shelf — Elena rubbed her forehead. It wasn’t her eyes. The egg was real. It stood in the middle of the carton like an abandoned child in a shady glade. Elena looked at the inscription on the carton. A MAGIC EGG. What the heck? Will these Easter lunacies ever end? Never mind…

Is there any other explanation? — When I was fifteen, I had a summer love affair. It lasted four months and was the weirdest thing in my life. Since then, I have never reread ‘Dracula’ or ‘Salem’s Lot’. And I have found nothing romantic in Stephany Meyer’s shimmering, affectionate main characters. You might find it funny…

They told him the end was coming This story is a fictional interpretation of the biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot understood that the newcomers weren’t just anybody, because they mentioned they had been to see his uncle Abraham in Mamre. And they had an important message to deliver. …

What would they tell us? I wonder what happens when our parents go silent. I wonder what happens when our parents get old and sick. What happens when they can’t walk or can’t get out of bed or can’t feed themselves or can’t go to the bathroom; what happens when…

Is coexistence possible? — I lie in the darkness, my ears still ringing from the brain-splitting alarm clock, and think how identical my twin sister is to me, and yet how much better at everything. My twin sister doesn’t struggle to get out of bed in the morning. The moment the alarm goes off…

Is there a road to salvation? — The robots were changing the planet. The thirty human beings watched the changes hidden behind the hardest glass in the world, covered by ivy so that it would remain invisible to the prowling eyes of the robots. The humans would gather behind the glass and watch the open valley in…