Once Upon A Time

Another in my series “Studio Shorts”

Once upon a time and on a very rainy day, a busy preacher brought a boatload of flowers home to his busy wife. Somehow, between hospital visits and phone calls and plans to go to maximum security prison that evening, the preacher also managed to squeeze in a trip to Trader Joe’s.

All because she’d mentioned wanting flowers the day before. She’d also completely forgotten about it, but he hadn’t.

And so on a Friday full of fears of AI, news of plane crashes, wars, hostages, and fires, in that nondescript home there was quiet joy.

Somehow, it mattered. In all the whole wide world, what happened there counted. In that one place, the powers of darkness lost, and beauty defied despair.