Nail—Six Sentence Story

Although Sam’s wife was ready with cough drops, apple cider vinegar and honey she was getting annoyed with his colds.  After they rebuked any spirits of infirmity, she opened an audio Bible on her phone, selected the Book of Psalms and set them to play continuously throughout the night.

Sam would pop out of dreams to hear a psalm he was familiar with and then seemingly moments later one he didn’t remember hearing before. The cooling perspiration on his chest in the morning made him realize: he was healed! 

The demons who tried to nail him down and make him useless couldn’t get a moment’s worth of peace with those psalms playing. However, considering their defeat at the battle of the Resurrection, those psalms were better than what they’d have to face when the end finally came.

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

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Author: Frank Hubeny

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24 thoughts on “Nail—Six Sentence Story”

  8. that totally makes sense (the psalms playing in the background) as who hasn’t spent one of those nights? we fall asleep and toss and turn and then wake up, relived that the endless night is finally over, only to have the clock face insist only thirty-three minutes have passed.
    the clock is the tormentor (better quiet music or familiar words to welcome our return to the world, however briefly.)
    good Six yo

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