J. Nicholas Merchen
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John, the Beloved
My grandmother chose my father’s name from the Bible—for he would be beloved by the Lord, just as the apostle was. And I would like to think that he was. That perhaps his being taken from this earth was a kind of divine intervention, that his test in life had been seen and counted finished. That maybe the Lord looked upon his shaking hands, the choreas that so often humiliated him, and decided that the comforts of glory were more fitting for such a man than the weight he bore here.
By J. Nicholas Merchen7 months ago in Fiction
The Making of a Ghost. Runner-Up in The Moment That Changed Everything Challenge.
The road into Grayson felt longer than Danny remembered. It was still the same cracked stretch of asphalt cutting through fields of nothing, but it had been nearly twelve years since the last time he’d traveled it, crammed into the backseat of his parents’ old sedan, surrounded by the boxes that wouldn’t fit in their moving truck. He had stuck his head out the window then, watching the town shrink behind them, certain that he’d never return.
By J. Nicholas Merchen12 months ago in The Swamp
