People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.
– Flannery O’Connor
Tag: hope
haiku 501
Election Day –
fresh hope
or deeper in the muck
#quikfic 113
Johnny was sad, but he knew there were always more fish in the sea. And he would keep kissing manatees until he found his mermaid.
Quotable 100
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
Fiction: Pajamas
Darla hung her bra on the closet doorknob. She put her arms into her cotton nightshirt, raised it above her head and let it fall down her body.
She paused briefly as she turned back the covers on her side of the bed. Stephen’s pajamas were folded neatly on his side of the bed, not quite touching his pillow. She had washed the bedding a few times since that day when he walked out, but she had been careful to replace his pajamas where he had left them.