A Story by Chuck Fager Copyright (c) All rights reserved PART ONE: Four Days Into Lockdown It was hot. The summer of 1970 was burning scorched-looking brown spots in the green Pennsylvania hills, and made the wide cornfields around us crackle, as if their just-forming ears were going to swell up and start popping any … Continue reading Another Midsummer Night’s Dream — A Story
Part One: Trying to Catch the Bus San Francisco – 2006 Kate was racing the Muni bus toward the stop at the corner. She was wet and out of breath. It was bad enough, she thought as the bus slowed, that the skinheads had ripped up her peace poster. But why did they have to … Continue reading Resistance Vacation Reading #4 — Lucy In The Sky, No Diamonds – A Quaker Ghost Story
March 10: Remember Tom Fox March 10 — how could I forget? How dare I fail to remember. Four years and four months ago, John Stephens and I began a blog site called freethecaptivesnow.org , as both a personal vigil and a community service, compiling and posting nightly updates of reports — or mostly the … Continue reading March 10: Remember Tom Fox
Thanks for the positive feedback on the Quaker Christmas story, “Candles In The Window.” There’s more to come. Next month, we’ll have another story, one that’s semi-autobiographical. Watch for it after the New Year holiday . . . . (If you missed “Candles,” the story starts here.)
I know no better relaxation than curling up in my favorite chair with a nice cup of tea and good murder mystery. Make it a well written religious, murder mystery that delves into spiritual, theological, and social concerns, and you have my perfect afternoon; my Sabbath from the cares and drudgery of my personal and professional life; a time and space suspended from reality. Yes, a virtual time and space in which I can exercise my mind trying to determine who done it and why!