Rick is hosting Friday Fiction at Pod Tales and Ponderings… go visit for some more great Christian short stories.
This was my most recent Faithwriters Challenge entry. It won an Editors Choice! I really loved the characters in it… sigh. Don’t ya wish that sometimes the fiction you write wasn’t really fiction?? I would love to know these two!
Summer Magic
“Just got a bug in m’ eye.” Josh answered the question in Beth’s eyes. He knuckled the last vestiges of dampness from them and looked away from her, rubbing his hands on his homespun overalls. The lake reflected his face… streaked with dirt, tanned dark, and hair bleached almost white. The blue water was nearly the same color as his eyes.
The tip of his cane pole dipped and he snatched it up with a jerk. The hook set and he swung the fish over his shoulder. It landed on a rock with a wet “swack.” Beth scooped it up with a finger under its gill. “Nice trout, Josh. Biggest one today.” [click to continue…]
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