Sounds of festive holiday carols filled the room, magnified by the absence of its usual occupants. Frosted glass showed the beginning of flurries dropping from the opaque clouds like a blanket overhead outside. It made a perfect backdrop to the tree standing full and fragrant on the classroom shelves beneath. Humming along with the cheery … Continue reading Candy and Canes
A screaming siren pierced the darkness stirring his mind from the black state it had fallen into. Struggling groggily to regain consciousness and equilibrium, he felt a constrictive something covering his nose and mouth. Even before he could force his eyes to open, his attempt to bring a hand up to bat it off … Continue reading The Dossier
Targeted. Trafficked. Triumphant. From the ashes to… action The backpack she carried felt like the weight of the world as she lumbered up the stairs. Wooden steps, thinly covered with carpet old and worn to the point that its once visible pattern was now indistinguishable, creaked. Normally a quaint, comforting sound today went unnoticed. Sighing … Continue reading SmashPunk!
I would have recognized it anywhere. The envelope was decorative, appropriate to the season and might have been from anyone, but the handwriting as familiar to me as my own. The red almost looked like a traffic signal flashing and had been taunting me from the breakfast bar between my kitchen and living space for … Continue reading An Unhindered Heart
God doesn’t call the qualified, God qualifies the called Most of the mourners had left the grave side. The heat of a southern sun made it uncomfortable to linger outside for long. They would gather for sweet tea and refreshments at the widow’s house, another southern tradition. With his head down, his eyes fixed on … Continue reading Prodigal Preacher
There’s no right way to do the wrong thing. *****WARNING****** POSSIBLE TRIGGER ALERT All his life had been in preparation for this moment. From the first time he picked up a BB gun, at the time nearly as big as he was, he’d had an inclination and proclivity for firearms and how to use them. … Continue reading Serial Sniper
Temptation turns to triumph It would be the first Thanksgiving she’d ever spent alone. As much as she prayed and hoped, it seemed her son, deployed overseas, would not be able to be here. Her daughter had a family of her own now and lived halfway across the country. For several days, Marian had felt … Continue reading A Thanks-giving Blessing
When everything you know is questioned, you find out where you stand and what you really believe… Something had gone terribly wrong. Things like this did not happen to people like her. It had to be some mistake. She’d been trying to tell anyone who would listen since yesterday when the whole nightmare started but … Continue reading Rebel Rising
Prologue Crisis plagues the remains of what was once the greatest nation on earth. For over one hundred and fifty years, the United States had been a beacon of power, prosperity and peace; but when a select group of intellectuals spear-headed a movement to strip the halls of academia, the processes of the judiciary … Continue reading FIREforce – prologue to the novel
Every part of her body ached. There had been too many men today. She knew protesting was useless. Either she would be denied food, beaten or worse and she had the scars to prove it. Climbing, no crawling really, on to the pallet where she was not only forced to entertain customers but … Continue reading A Pearl of Great Price
Lisa Greco Filali 