short story

Endings Are Beginnings Too

February 20, 2021jlburrowsUncategorizedAuthor, christian, christian fiction, fiction, free story, paranormal, paranormal fiction, short story2 Comments

“God take me home,” I breathed. “Take me quickly.” The words traveled no farther than my lips, but my heavenly Father heard me.

Everything in life promised my death would be slow, arduous, and painful especially since I was horrible at change. It took me forever to adjust to teaching after my last job as a musician. However, despite the slow growth in the field, I was at least successful. Then there was the battle with cancer. Yup, I fought the new normal after remission like an MMA champ. It took eight years before I began to trust the ground would hold me up and the invisible wouldn’t knock me back down. Even still, I had hope in my dying breath that the Father might wrap his hands around me and sweep me out of the painful mire I now languished in.

For Serenity – Final Version

November 30, 2019jlburrowsUncategorizedadult fiction, Author, christian, christianauthor, dystopian, fiction, flash fiction, science fiction, short stories, short story1 Comment

Writer-In-Motion Week 4 – Final Version The fourth week of Writer-In-Motion is about tightening, editing, and sculpting until the word count is within the parameters set forth at the beginning of WIM. This is not my favorite round. It is awful to work so hard to put the words on the page, only to turn

For Serenity

November 21, 2019jlburrowsUncategorizedAuthor, dystopia, science fiction, short story, Writer, Writing, writing process

Writer-In-Motion Week 3 – Critique Partner Round This is the third week of Writer-In-Motion, where authors implement the feedback their critique partners have provided. I love working with critique partners because there is literally no way to read your own work without understanding it. There’s no way to become disengaged from the emotional connection to

For Serenity

November 16, 2019jlburrowsUncategorizedadult fiction, Author, dystopian, revision, science fiction, short story, Writing1 Comment

This is a short story written for the Writer-In-Motion event designed to share the process of writing. This is my first revision. For Serenity Joyce snapped. For years, she’d watched the government assignments dictate the future. Children two-years-old forced down pathways established by the all-seeing eye of their government. Two. Algorithms chose their future. Not