essays – Stories by Shawn

On the Memory of Trees

(an essay) It wasn’t a big thing. It was a banal thing. A common everyday thing. Something seen by everyone on a regular basis. It was a tree. One I glanced at while walking in my neighborhood. A section of the bare tree trunk, foliage above, some more below, and, below that, a wooden fence.… Continue reading On the Memory of Trees

A Crack in My Windshield

Flash Fiction Challenge 100 – Day 38 I don’t remember how the windshield crack began. At some point, some bit of something from the road had struck it just right to set it in place. Initially, it was just a short jagged line. Then it slowly meandered its way across the entire windshield. It began… Continue reading A Crack in My Windshield