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monday muddlings: “advent: a parable”

November 29, 2010 in monday fiction with 3 Comments

It seems somewhat odd to start out the blog again with a short story about two prostitutes. Even odder to begin Advent this way. But I’m in need of writing some short fiction and Mondays are going to be now devoted to that endevor. Knowing my novel has intention form a publisher means spending time just writing other things as I go back to work on it. That is a kind of peace. So in the interm, I submit these little tidbits to you. It all started with a first line on Advent Sunday at 3 AM. So, there’s that.

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Advent: A Parable

She had painted her fingernails jade for the holiday, but the reason seemed foolish now. There was no one to dance with. The punch was heady and tasted too much of cheap rum. A woman sitting on the other side of the room was laughing violently, falling into the obliging man next to her, who recoiled just enough at the sudden whiff of cheap perfume and let his eyes trace down her neckline, betraying his intentions.

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the saints & i

November 1, 2010 in bits of theological ramblings, reflections with 13 Comments

Somedays, more than others, it’s confusing to be a Southern Bapto-Anglican with a sprinkle of philo-Catholicism, and in general being a healthy and high-functioning eccentric.

All Saints Day happens to be one of those days.

As a Southern Baptist, I don’t recall hearing much about it in church. Perhaps at home, where my parents were more likely to talk about things that weren’t always akin to what Southern Baptists held to be true. (Though I learned later in life, and indeed keep learning, that a lot of what I thought “we” believed had a whole lot more to do with people misinterpreting things and becoming lazy theologically than what a true Southern Baptist faith was supposed to look like. Good, gracious, and very patient parents have helped me understand that, but that’s another blog for another day.)

As an Anglican, or as an Episcopalian, depending not on politics (I’m Anglican in that regard) but much more on where is best for me to receive the Eucharist, given my geographic proximity to a limited number of non-Baptist churches, it certainly takes our focus.

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