After the sermon, the preacher slipped into a back pew and filled his Bible’s margins with notes from another man’s message.
Down the hall, a student raised his hand.
The teacher never looked up.
One left church with fuller pages.
The other left with empty margins.
Louie Rivers is a writer from Mississippi whose work explores faith, memory, and the quiet tensions of everyday life. He writes microfiction and poetry rooted in Southern experience and personal reflection.