Author: Frank Hubeny

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

Six Sentence Story: Reason, Reason Everywhere Without a Beating Heart

Joe was a mathematician.

Among his many skills he could tell you which infinity was bigger than the other. If you told him that you doubted such a skill had much value, he’d entertain you for a longer period of time than your patience could tolerate with a sequence of axioms, lemmas and theorems that justified the value of his results.

However, as Joe approached the end of his life the infinite number of infinities, lined up like idols starving for sacrifices, that used to spice his life gave way to an unexpected and undeserved heart of flesh that seemed as if it had just begun to beat out of nowhere. He laughed at all the arguments he used to drill into unwilling ears hoping they might forgive (knowing they had already forgotten) all that he told them.

But, whether they forgave or not, Joe wished that all of them could find the heartfelt joy he now felt, a joy worth far more than any number of dubious infinities.

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

Cosmic Photo Challenge: From An Unusual Perspective

Dale offers the prompt “from an unusual perspective” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The unusual perspective I used is getting so close to the object that I tend to forget just what it was originally.

This is a dip for breads and other food seen up close
This is a very small part of a large fence around a park.
The yellow object to the bottom right (I think) is an egg and all of it is in a fancy bowl with flowers as decorations. You can see the shadow of my phone taking the picture.

Six Sentence Story: Fleeing From God

When the Lord told Jonah to tell the Ninevites to repent so He wouldn’t need to destroy them, Jonah got on a boat and fled in the opposite direction. An horrendous storm refused to calm until Jonah was tossed overboard to his death and burial in the belly of a whale.

The cost of disobedience is death.

However, after three days and three nights – after three sunsets and three sunrises – the fish vomited Jonah onto the shore and back to life so the Lord could tell Jonah once again to tell the Ninevites to repent so He wouldn’t need to destroy them. The sight of Jonah – who looked (and likely smelled) like the walking dead – and the reluctant words coming from his mouth freaked out the inhabitants of Nineveh to such an extent that they all repented and were spared against Jonah’s wishes.

It gets you nowhere fleeing from God.

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

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Scenes From An Autumn Garden

Dale offers the prompt, “scenes from an autumn garden”, for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

These photos are from a few years ago when we lived in Northbrook, Illinois. The flowers were in a public park or forest preserve.

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Bug on a yellow flower
Coneflowers in a prairie park
Butterfly on a flower

Six Sentence Story: Filled To Overflowing

While trying to fill a six sentence story with words Greg realized he hadn’t a clue what to write that made any sense. A few blocks away neither could Bethany make any progress on her story.

Later that afternoon they found themselves sitting next to each other in a coffee shop in the last two available chairs complaining about their fruitless attempts to come up with decent stories. They whined and laughed while drinking their coffees.

That afternoon in the coffeeshop was how it all started. Over the years came the children, the grandchildren and even stories that made sense.

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Denise offers “fill” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: My One Weakness

Dale offers the prompt “my one weakness is…” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

In my case, one of my weaknesses is to take photos of water during sunrises or sunsets. Others may like to sit on the shore or go into the water during the day. I can’t think of a good reason to do either of those two things.

Here are some examples.

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I especially like sunrises with birds
If there are no birds, a boat or buildings will do.
Clouds are also welcome.

Six Sentence Story: Forgiven, Now Forgotten

After re-reading the letter forgotten in a drawer he was cleaning out, Brian decided to tear it into pieces. George died years ago. Sarah was far away. The betrayal was painful, but it transformed into blessings beyond imagining and forgiveness should have settled it long ago.

Then Brian regretted tearing up the letter wondering if he should tape the pieces back together.

To make sure he didn’t, Brian took the pieces to the sink and burnt them.

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