We want to hear about the moments, large and small, be they public spectacle or closely held secret, that have shaped, defined, or changed your life or the lives of others.
The only rules are that each submission must be 400 words or less and should be true, with the acknowledgement that truth and facts are not necessarily always completely synonymous.
Some samples:
In time your sight adjusts to the red light and you become efficient in your subterranean cocoon of plastic film spooled into canisters of bitter chemicals that will wash the silver from the frames, fade in still lives and candid glances, Suzy’s dark eyes a bright white in their negative reflections; the timer unspools twenty minutes in one acrid bath,...[more]
It starts at the base of the giant old big-leaf maple, a narrow path rising to the left, overgrown in spring with thimbleberry and stinging nettles, and a wider, muddier track straight on, sloping gently down among the alders toward the bridle trails and acres of pasture a half mile on.
On the right, perhaps a hundred yards further, a steep...[more]
We live in a spectacular moment of time, a fraction of a fraction of a second on the face of the cosmic clock, when we are so purely privileged to be able to see with our own eyes the wonderous, brief sweep of the universe, its billion-spiraled arms whirling out across unimaginable distances, its colors burning from the same metals...[more]
The soft May rain that you can just see out of the corner of your eye; the rain, lashed by the wind, that shudders the windows on a November night; the rain that turned the creek into a torrent, washing the leaves we used as boats down the culvert; the rain after two long, hot weeks in August that coaxes...[more]
