How have media figures achieved a form of immortality?
Author’s Intent: Who Wants to Live Forever?
Tag: human nature
2022
Does anything really change at midnight on December 31?
A Tale of Two Sisters, Vickie Rises
Vickie’s body lies in a heap in the alley, eyes open and staring into the darkness, blood from her neck wound forming a pool beneath her, and her face wearing the horrified look it bore during the attack. She had not heard her attacker’s taunt after he finished, nor had she noticed him standing a … Continue reading A Tale of Two Sisters, Vickie Rises
Christmas Stroll
A couple takes a nighttime stroll through Macon’s Christmas display.
Boom Town, Lenny as a Dad
Why does Leonard Stringer’s daughter tell people he’s dead?
Worthy, Savage Jam
Several families converge for Thanksgiving and spend the following day jamming with the Savages.
A Tale of Two Sisters, Stepney
Cedric and Anne Stepney have never had children. How will they react when they find a “miracle” child on a trash heap?
Welcome Home
3 December 2021: Macon, Georgia.
Boom Town, Fox Tower
Which of Atlanta’s many historic demolitions hurt the author the most?
A Tale of Two Sisters, Margaret
22 April 2017: Atlanta, Georgia. Margaret Smythe never wanted to be a bad mother. When she married Thomas Seely in Bishopsgate in 1834 she anticipated many years together and a houseful of healthy, happy children. When she learned she was pregnant, she felt the future was wide open. Billy’s birth made her the happiest she … Continue reading A Tale of Two Sisters, Margaret