Good news everybody, I have found an editor that is a wonderful fit for me as a writer. Her credentials are phenomenal (university level professor and a Master’s from a top institution), she doesn’t pull her punches, and is willing to deal with my insatiable desire for personal growth. This is the first piece that has included her teachings from the very beginning. The Bohr’s Protocol was the first piece that she edited. However, that piece had already been added to the short story section and sent to magazines for publishing.
However, I bring: Hope. This is a piece that is different than my recent writing. As my editor stated, “If I read Hope and The Bohr’s Protocol, I wouldn’t have figured it was the same author.” Nonetheless, it is the same writer.
Hope | Fiction | 3723 | August 23, 2013
First Paragraph, I suggest you read the whole piece or it wont make sense:
I will never forget the day my son asked for my permission to buy a gun. Henri Bergson’s Time and Freewill was spread across my fingers. My thumb and index finger were holding the page open to my favorite quote. As my eyes darted across the page, an interruption alerted me to his presence. I was reading my favorite quote and seeking answers: “What makes hope such an intense pleasure is the fact that the future, which we dispose of to our liking, appears to us at the same time under a multitude of forms, equally attractive and equally possible. Even if the most coveted of these be-comes realized, it will be necessary to give up the others, and we shall have lost a great deal. The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.”