Goodbye
Out there. Just beyond touch, but close enough to see, she sits upon a raft drifting farther out into the broad ocean. Amber moonlight casts her long, undulatin...
Author: Brad Severance
During the day, I develop websites using the latest technologies. At night, I write fiction. I bake gingerbread cookies, too.
Behold the Human Spirit
The son knelt beside his dying mother. He held her hand and stroked her hair, and tears fell from his face. A silver necklace hung around her neck with a silver...
Father, Son, Spirit
My father, the past. My son, what will be. My spirit, the eternal now. The father forgives, So that the son may yet live Without the burden of folly.
How I Wish
How I wish To reach back in time And stay the hand That pulls the card That topples the house … A house I truly loved. If only I had known The tears IR...
The Human Heart
An edifice of stone crumbles into sand. The human heart fails to beat (the drummer fallen) And God the soul becomes, Like a drop of rain falling into a fathomle...
Quotes From the Twelve Caesars (4)
This will be my last post on Julius Caesar (the first of the twelve Caesars). We’ll be moving on to Augustus soon enough! Julius Caesar was an enigmatic r...
Quote From the Twelve Caesars (3)
Julius Caesar was certainly a man of paradoxes, both in his own time, and in the annals of history. Suetonius writes in The Twelve Caesars of Caesar’s app...
Quote From the Twelve Caesars (2)
The year was 49 BC. Caesar had a choice to make. Start a civil war in the Roman Republic or obey the orders of the Senate to give up his armies. Caesar was appa...
Quote: The Twelve Caesars
This is from Chapter One of Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars. I’m reading the translation by Robert Graves, one of my favorite poets. Here is the quote...