Krin Van Tatenhove - Words & Images

15/11/2025

Karma can be a bitch, but it can also save your life. Two men - a reporter and his editor – learn this lesson firsthand as they struggle with their demons in Krin Van Tatenhove’s short story, “What Goes Around…”

(Dedicated to Tony Morris) As a man sow, shall he reap. – Bob Marley You’ve heard the warning. Don't try this at home. Here's another one for the list. Detoxing from alcohol. I already knew that, having endured it enough times to prove every theory of alcoholic insanity. But here I was again, 2:...

14/11/2025

Emerging writer Victor Benavides said this about my latest book. “Each piece unfolds like a quiet revelation, tender, raw, and profoundly human. What makes this anthology so extraordinary is its graceful balance between unflinching honesty and abiding compassion. Every story feels like an act of courage, exploring the universal themes of love, forgiveness, faith, and renewal that flow gently beneath the surface."

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An agnostic stumbles into an unexpected sanctuary. A father faces his last chance to reconcile with his son. A man must decide whether to open the door to ICE agents. A woman’s gift for seeing beauty is shattered by violence. A reporter, lost in darkness, reaches out one final time. A chaplain...

11/11/2025

As a veteran on this Veteran’s Day 2025, I am still hopeful…

Last week, on a trip to Savannah, Georgia, I found myself standing at the corner of Oglethorpe Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Late afternoon sun cast long shadows across the intersect…

09/11/2025

Bubble Machine and A Girl and Her Seahorse

03/11/2025

Jason's last hurrah as a priest was something he never expected. And he would never forget it.

Jason Merriweather stood near the communion table of St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church. A shaft of late-afternoon light cut through the stained glass, pouring a river of color across the marble floo…

29/10/2025

Here Comes the Sun

27/10/2025

From the altar to the open sky, from the sermon to the beating of your own heart.

In 2024, the Pew Research Center found that 28% of Americans check “none” as their choice of religion. So many of us have stepped away from organized faith, not out of rebellion, but fr…

23/10/2025

Trippin'

22/10/2025

It wasn’t lightning. It wasn’t fire. It wasn’t anything she had ever seen. As it moved across the Gulf toward the lighthouse, Hannah’s heart started pounding.

(According to the U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office, 122 women were appointed as official lighthouse keepers from 1845 to 1912) Port Isabel, Texas — November 15, 1860 The night air tasted l…

15/10/2025

I Saw Her on the Road

15/10/2025

Growing flowers on Mars is hard enough without resistance from a stubborn administrator. In Mary Jo Rabe’s short story, The Perfect Red Rose, see how Debbie – an interplanetary horticulturist – finds a creative solution.

Debbie dropped her luggage on the floor of the little efficiency apartment allocated to her in the Bradbury habitat on Mars and sneezed. The sound bounced back and forth from one wall to another, increasing in annoyance with each bounce. The apartment seemed spotless at first, but when she looked at...

14/10/2025

Samuel accepts the challenge to ferry slaves across the Ohio River, but he’s afraid it will cost him his life. It almost does…

(Editor’s note: The most heavily traveled route from slavery to freedom involved crossing the Ohio River from Northern Kentucky into Cincinnati. Enslaved people called it “The River Jordan,& #8…