Mesmer and the Flying Boy
By the expression Animal Magnetism I mean one of the universal operations of Nature, the action of which, when directed on our nerves,...
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Jenn Zatopek
- May 20
- 6 min
Leaving My Mother Behind
(Content warning: this story contains sensitive material related to child sexual abuse, rape. Please read at your own discretion.) At the...
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Shawn Casselberry
- May 10
- 4 min
Moon Mission
Corporal Maxwell had progressed faster than Space Force Sergeant Jackson had anticipated. In a few short months, he had already logged...
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Michael Fryd
- Apr 28
- 4 min
God is a Misogynist
I’ve lived five years next door to Ira Schwartz, but we never exchanged more than a brief hello. I stopped in to check on him a few...
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Joel Klepac
- Apr 13
- 4 min
Saguaro in the Palm: Gratitude and the Mindfulness of Death
In the midst of training for a trail race, I traveled to a conference in Phoenix. Thinking of the pain I would be in if I didn’t keep up...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
- Mar 30
- 19 min
Baby Bridget's Ashes
Adrian Reynosa awaited his final appointment of the day. He was weary of urine tests, paperwork, perfunctory questions with equally...
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Ruth Kennedy
- Mar 14
- 7 min
An Elephant in the Room
As a labor and delivery nurse of 25 years, I worked with many doctors. One of the anesthesiologists I worked with for 20 years placing...
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Doug Dalglish
- Feb 28
- 22 min
How It All Ends
(Note: occasionally, Story Sanctum will publish the first chapters of upcoming novels. Here is one from writer Doug Dalglish) Justo The...
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Rebecca M. Blackwell
- Feb 13
- 6 min
Fun (and NOT so much) with Dementia: One Couple’s Journey with Love and Loss
(Note: the following are excerpts from Rebecca M. Blackwell’s book published in 2022. Here is a link for the full copy). For most people,...
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Michael J. Adee
- Jan 30
- 4 min
Hope is Contagious
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in...
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Pieter Van Tatenhove
- Jan 15
- 13 min
Where Can I Flee?
1 It was a cool fall evening, the sky gray and the air still. I tied the goldenrod with a blue ribbon and held it in my hand as I walked,...
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Yasmin Gudino
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
Choice Is What Gives Me Hope
There is no escape for you except by a radical psychological transformation of yourself. – Neville Goddard I believe that some people are...
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Shawn Casselberry
- Dec 21, 2022
- 8 min
The Gospel According to Helga
Helga, a hard working waitress, has a lot to teach us about the true meaning of the holidays.
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Joel Klepac
- Nov 22, 2022
- 3 min
MoMA and Hadestown: Rothko, Matisse and Anais Mitchell
Arrested by the Dance (1909) by Henri Matisse, I sat and drew it in my 6x6 inch sketchbook. The figures form a wild chain in a distorted...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
- Nov 16, 2022
- 16 min
The Rounds
Henry opened his eyes to sunrise slanting beneath the overpass. Summer humidity clung to his skin like wet cotton. From the distance,...
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Shawn Casselberry
- Oct 31, 2022
- 4 min
Intersection
6:00 AM Ryan had finally tired of waking up in an empty bed. Grief had run its rollercoaster course over the last five years, and his...
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Michelle Ferrigno Warren
- Oct 4, 2022
- 2 min
Join the Resistance: First Steps
This story is an excerpt from Michelle Warren’s new book Join the Resistance (IVP, 2022). When my oldest child was in first grade, I...
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Shawn Casselberry
- Sep 5, 2022
- 8 min
The Time Teller
Zoe never dreamed of working as a time teller. It was a hard job to get in the best of economies, in a recession it was nearly...
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Joel Klepac
- Aug 15, 2022
- 4 min
Reverence is not Only for the Religious
You wind around switchbacks, tree-covered mountainsides, and ravines and then eventually through a long tunnel. Without warning, you are...
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