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The Great Experiment
The Great Experiment
If all goes well, we’ll be camping for the next two and a half months.
James Conrad Reese
May 5, 2015
Falls
Falls
I threw myself to the ground happily, preferring the rough embrace of the snow to the uncontrolled passions of gravity.
James Conrad Reese
Jan 12, 2015
Dismantled
Forefront in my mind wasn’t the actions of a man, or even his words, but his face.
James Conrad Reese
Dec 11, 2014
Latest
Awareness
I sat at the head of the table, looking at each person in turn. Eve and Mattieu to my left, my wife to my right, Nancy and Flavian after…
James Conrad Reese
Dec 4, 2014
Kindness
I turned around swiftly, a fifth sense warning me that Eliot was not at her obligatory post of four steps behind me. I saw her darting from…
James Conrad Reese
Dec 4, 2014
To have bitten off the matter with a smile
The weight of her last sentence hung between us. I sat in the chair, twisting the pillow in my hands. My temper rose, and I looked out the…
James Conrad Reese
Dec 4, 2014
Wedding
I sat in the darkened hall, half-draped over the side of the borrowed pack-and-play. My youngest moved under the reassurance of my hand…
James Conrad Reese
Dec 4, 2014
For these things we strive
My wife leaned over and whispered to her, “Say it again Eliot.” My daughter turned wide eyes to me, long hair falling across her shoulders…
James Conrad Reese
Dec 3, 2014
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