by Valorie Quesenberry | Sep 8, 2018 | bookstore, coffee, college Bible college, freshman, library, romance, roommates, siblings
Sonoma slapped the cover of the book shut and stared out the window. The campus of the little Christian college was pretty in the autumn. Sugar maples and oaks scattered colorful leaves like a child shaking glitter from a bottle. The afternoon sun cast a tawny glow...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Aug 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
Feelings of inadequacy and rejection are some of the most painful in human experience. And all of us have been acquainted with them. How we process them matters. Our disappointments don’t have to define us. This guest article is one that I asked my eldest...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Jun 30, 2018 | EMT, fireworks, July 4th, missions, romance, short story
It really burned. As many times as Callie had attended fireworks events on the 4th of July, she had never had a spark fall on her until now. It had been an unusually beautiful burst of color. She had been absorbed in watching it until the last glimmer faded,...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Jun 23, 2018 | bicycle, dog tags, orchard, repair, retirement Florida, romance, short story, summer, war
Stella couldn’t imagine life without her bicycle. As she pushed her ten-speed down the sidewalk toward the repair shop, she had to smile to herself. She could practically chronicle her life in bicycles. She remembered the first bike she ever...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Jun 9, 2018 | grandma, Great Smoky Mountains, honeymoon, mountains, short story, streams author, Tennessee
Lilly Jean hiked her skirt to her knees and dipped her toes into the water. Ooooh, it was cold. It could be hot outside as bacon sizzling in her mama’s cast-iron skillet and the mountain stream still felt like water dripping off an icicle. She stuck her other...
