Beam—Six Sentence Story

When a beam of dusty light through a dirty window brightened Jerome’s face he got out of bed woke awake. As a god of his own making, resting on his own authority, he was the good guy by definition. That meant everyone else was either a bad guy or had received temporary clearance papers to remain unscathed by his condemnations.

Since he didn’t consider it possible that he wasn’t much of a god nor that the good he did wasn’t all that good, he refused to repent when his own faults became obvious like contradictions staining an otherwise pristine proof. Being his own lord, why should he call upon Someone else?

Gambling that his tale would end when it was over, Jerome let it end with that.

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Denise offers the prompt word “beam” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Genesis 3:5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Romans 10:13
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

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  3. In my corporate life, I discovered that to have a godfather, you needed to accept someone unconditionally as God. I couldn’t do it but hats off to self-appointed gods who manage to ‘sell’ themselves by throwing sops. And they never trust any other god – it’s all so fishy.

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