Whatever Crosses My Mind: A Fiction and Poetry Blog

It   was a hot summer afternoon; the first day of September. Ellie gathered some fresh red roses and white jasmine blooms from her yard, and...

 Writer's note: I am in the process of reworking some old fragments of a story idea from some time back, that I originally posted  insta...

  I am a silver hairbrush, passed down since the Roaring Twenties thru the Franco family. I was lagniappe when Sam Franco and his new wife, ...

 My name is Davis Lambeth. I have a cousin who was in the Marines during the Vietnam War, and who subsequently died from exposure to Agent S...

 At approximately 8 in the morning, on Friday, May 19, 1536, Queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry Tudor VIII, was executed on th...

Every June 17, I can't help being thinking about the horrible night that my home church burned. Not just mine; there were 19 others that...

 I will never forget it as long as I live. It's actually been fifty years now. I just can't believe it. Neither can my older sister,...