As a boy he would steal away from home of a summer’s night and climb upon a wide fence post at the corner of the farmer’s field to sit and wonder at the star-filled sky. Now, as he lay dying, with eyes closed, he beheld the inner firmament and understood.
Nick Young is a retired award-winning CBS News Correspondent. His writing has appeared in the San Antonio Review, Short Story Town, Danse Macabre Magazine, Pigeon Review, CafeLit Magazine, the Green Silk Journal, Typeslash Review, 50-Word Stories, Sein und Werden, Flyover Magazine,, Sandpiper, The Chamber Magazine and Vols. I and II of the Writer Shed Stories anthologies.
I love this inspirational short story!
Thank you.
Powerful.
My thanks.
I may have commented before that your descriptive language vocabulary is excellent. Here it is again. Good imagery! And a good, thought-provoking story.
I thank you, Jim.