Entries Tagged as 'The Cry is For Freedom'
Hi again,
Well it’s been a busy few weeks but I am glad I finally got the chance to get The Last Will Be First up. I know that you will enjoy it. Considered a compelling tale that is Steinbeck-esque in its nature, it’s a story about social justice, about shattered hopes and dreams and a faith and a friendship that will not, even amidst the darkest of days, die between two men whose lives become irreversibly woven together.
Hope all is going well with everybody out there and that you like this sample from this story. As always the full version is available down below.
Wyatt
Tags: The Lingering of the Moment · The Cry is For Freedom
He never expected that this would be his life, that this would be all that it had amounted to. He may not have had big dreams but they were always larger than this. Yet now… now he was nothing more than a lost soul searching for a place in a world that seemed to just forget him, relying on the compassion and the sympathy of others as the days of his life passed by waiting in one line or another, praying for some sort of deliverance that would restore his hope and his faith. It hadn’t come yet but then when you have nothing faith and hope becomes everything.
A compelling and riveting story of loss and hope amidst a world that seemed so dark and distant, given to such despair The Last Will Be First tells of two men passed by in a land of promise and prosperity, and the dreams they had that someday they would be able to finally find more. A tale of the bonds we form, the optimism that transcends our circumstances and the desperation that can encompass us, it shows a side of life that is rarely considered or talked about, but that grips so many in its clutches.
Tags: The Lingering of the Moment · The Cry is For Freedom
Hi,
Welcome back to Moments in Time. Here’s a new story that I am sure that you will enjoy. Along with The Execution and The Outpost, Finally Free is a part of The Cry is Freedom collection of short stories that delves into the challenges, the adversity and the perseverance of the human soul as it struggles for liberty and justice.
Set against the backdrop of America’s fight against slavery, the abolitionist movement and the lead up to the Civil War, it’s a story that delves deep into love and hope, strength and courage even against the most impossible of odds.
I hope you enjoy.
Wyatt
Tags: The Cry is For Freedom
She knelt in quiet prayer, waiting, longing for him to come through that church door, to hold her once more in his arms. Yet, as the days passed, as the nights quickly turned to morning she was left to wonder if he was ever to come, or if she’d ever see him again. She knew that the road was hard, that the journey was treacherous and she couldn’t help but find her hope fleeting, turning to despair as she waited for him to finally come. Maybe she should have never left him, maybe she should never have went ahead of him, for, as no word came, she was left to believe the worst had happened, and that she was alone amidst the world.
Set against the backdrop of pre-Civil War America, Finally Free tells the story of a onetime slave and her path to freedom as she waits for her love to join her. A tale of faith, hope, patience and perseverance it weaves together the fear and the dread of those early days when men and women would have to be snuck out, hiding as cargo so that they might stand free.
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Exiled to that remote outpost on the edge of civilization, he felt the weight of that loneliness, and solitude crushing. It wasn’t life, it wasn’t death, it was almost as if he found himself amidst purgatory, cast there and forgotten about as time marched by so slowly. What did he have left? What did he have to look forward to? His life never started and it never ended, all he did was exist in a world he had grown to loathe and despise for all it robbed him of.
The Outpost is the story of two men coming together by chance, and, in the spiritual journey , discovering that, despite the differences in their circumstances, despite the differences in their lives, their souls are intertwined together. A soldier and a prisoner, both who’s lives seem decided, their fates cast to despair, they find compassion and understanding as they wait for inevitably of the morning to draw upon them.
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Tags: The Cry is For Freedom
I have been asked by many people what the story behind the The Execution is. Usually I like to let the reader determine that for themselves, and this is no different. I tend to look at writing as a partnership between the author and the reader. Though the one sitting down and setting the story to paper weaves together it should remain a deeply personal experience for the one who is enjoying it, allowing for them to draw from it according to who they are and how they view the world.
Still, for those of you wondering, the inspiration came from an account I had once heard about South Africa during Apartheid. It was, during that time, the practice of the government to come early, at dawn, on Wednesday mornings, and drag the prisoner out to be executed. Often times it was for little reason more than the color of their skin, or because they had believed that somehow they were a part of the struggle against the racist policy that gripped the nation.
In one of the accounts there was the story of a young man who was executed. Weak and unable to face his ultimate fate with the needed to face the fear and terror that had to overtake him he began to cry and he literally was dragged from his cell. Yet, even in that moment, hope wouldn’t die. Hearing his desperation, his sorrow, his anguish his brothers in the cells would begin to bang their doors and soon the chaos would be replaced with rhythm and their yells would give way to song. As the young man was executed at the gallows, the last thing he would hear would be the voices of his fellow prisoners singing a hymn to him to guide him home in a degree of peace.
I don’t believe the hymn that I used in the story, Come unto Me (or Blessed Voice of Jesus), was the song that was sung. Truth is, if I ever knew, it’s now in the further recesses of my mind, forgotten as many pieces of information are. Somehow though, looking for something that would reflect the mood and the feeling of the moment, that was the one that came to me.
That’s just a bit more about the story, I hope you enjoy it.
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Tags: The Cry is For Freedom
Here’s an short excerpt from the first piece I have put up, The Execution. To download the full version as a single audio please scroll down to the post just prior and click “Buy Now” or “Add to Cart”, or subscribe to my site and get access to all my short stories as they come out. Hope you enjoy, see you next week.
Tags: The Cry is For Freedom
He sits alone in his cell, waiting for the hour of his final fate, the fear almost overtaking him as he finds himself longing to escape to those distant memories of happier times, happier days when the darkness didn’t seem so easily to encompass him.
The execution is the story of the final moments before the death of a man sentenced to die for no other reason then he was not as he was supposed to be, because there are times and there are places when humans are considered something less than what they are. Yet still, in those final moments he finds a deep and abiding sense of peace through the love and the comfort of those he had never known and would never know as they heard his cries and offered of themselves all that they had left to give to him.
Music by Kevin MacLeod
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