It’s My Body

by Susan Ternyey, 2021               Sitting beside his large, rich old mahogany desk, steel-grey eyes and hair gave an equal substantiality to the man’s composed demeanor.  He was a doctor, almost father and confessor, in the small community he’d lived for near 50 years.  Not much was new or surprising to him, but if itContinue reading “It’s My Body”

A Lump of Coal for Christmas:

A Victorian Tale by Susan Ternyey                 Nicholas was mischievous. He was a nuisance.  He was unmanageable, spoiled, and so lovable, in his mischievous, nuisance, unmanageably spoiled way.                 His father knew something must be done to guide the boy aright and correct his behavior.  But Nicholas was the eldest, and the only son, andContinue reading “A Lump of Coal for Christmas:”