The following is an excerpt from The Long Shadow by Phyllis Wheeler. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Chapter 1 Weather was brewing. Heat was still rising from the pavement when the wind started up, carrying with it the tang of coming rain. Gray clouds […]
The following is an excerpt from The Call of the Child by Bruce McKibben. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. One day when our daughter was in high school, she was telling me about her frustration with a classmate. This classmate had begun to change […]
The following is an excerpt from Secret of the Ruby by A.E. Smith. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Balthazar’s Riddle Nikolaus hardly heard what Balthazar said about a riddle. He was thinking about coming all this way and spending so much time, money, and […]
The following is an excerpt from I Am Sophia by J. F. Alexander. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. The lowcontrib stays for the rest of the service and appears to listen intently to Peter’s sermon, which he has titled The Delicate Balance Between God’s […]
The following is an excerpt from Conversations with Silence by Sally Longley. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. The Eloquence of Shadows To make light is to make shadow; one cannot exist without the other. To own one’s own shadow is to reach a holy […]
