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“This is your last chance to do something right, son. Don’t screw it up.” With these words ringing in his 60-year old ears, Howard Brown, Jr., sets out from Kentfield, California to find his wayward and possibly psychotic sister and return her to their dying father’s bedside. The search leads… Read More

Tags: reconciliation, , family-life, bipolar-mentalillness

Short Story / Fantasy

April 07, 2017

Reads: 407

Comments: 2

Shelves: 2

The House of Ghosts House

What happens when you die? Is there an afterlife? What if you have lingering regrets? That is what John will find out alongside a mysterious companion that seemed very familiar despite never meeting before, as they go through his past to the events leading up to his death. During this… Read More

Tags: death, family, tragedy, reconciliation, afterlife

Lillian Quinn never truly understood herself. Her mother had died after giving birth to her younger sister, Primrose, and so Lilly had acted most cruel and most unreasonable with her for many years. But there was another side to the story. Primrose was better, prettier, more talented than Lilly could… Read More

Tags: love, quest, sister, reconciliation, cruelty

Time, once passed, considered lost. To my short teenage years, I ask for peace and forgiveness. Read More

Tags: memoir, past, regret, reconciliation

A short story about a young boy trying to get away from his past, but only encounters more troubles. Read More

Tags: love, train, lost, journey, reconciliation

My novel, set in South America, tells the story of the imprisonment of an esteemed, native political prisoner during a period of high tension between indigenous and mixed-race populations. The story is told through the various viewpoints of the prisoner's jailors and interrogators. This novel was inspired when five men… Read More

Tags: abuse, american, murder, political, truth, torture, prison, racism, africa, indian, south, imprisonment, reconciliation, prisoner, apartheid

The power and release inside reconciliation. Read More

Tags: forgiveness, healing, walk, reconciliation

This story comprises a single day shared with my father. His mere presence in the plot guarantees thrills, chills, comedy, action, and a twist of drama; and but for a dash of artistic license, I would have labeled this piece "non-fiction". On the backdrop of my return home, after years… Read More

Tags: family, humor, action, reconciliation, nostalgia, love_hate, father_son

A brief look at the word that gets translated as "eternal" in the Bible. Read More

Tags: love, god, salvation, hope, hell, christian, eternal, beyond, reconciliation, restoration, universal, bell, shack, rob, raising

Matthew Joyce was finally beginning to appreciate the smaller things in life. A tumultuous few years filled with wrong-doing and temptation had been put in the rear view mirror. Life is beginning to become smooth and calm when on a beautiful spring day, Matthew is murdered. A lifelong atheist, Matthew… Read More

Tags: redemption, reconciliation, purgatory

Poem / Poetry

December 04, 2011

Reads: 414

Comments: 6

The Booksie Classic House

The battle for me continues, Mr dibble says his piece, but is Mr Dabble taking heed? Read More

Tags: hope, conflict, wish, reconciliation

This is when thoughts for peace and unity are desired. Read More

Tags: love, death, war, life, universe, prayer, peace, unity, reconciliation

This poem talks about all races becoming one. The poet wishes that all war, hatred and racism should end and it is time to celebrate peace and unity. Read More

Tags: peace, unity, reconciliation

It is not unusual, upon a careful reading of another’s work, to discover themes unintended by the author. Such is the case here as Mead’s behaviorist account of self and society is given a more expansive interpretation. As a result, Mead’s me-self and I-self are transformed into conflicting collective voices,… Read More

Tags: conflict, hate, self, meaning, voices, unity, selfishness, reconciliation, narrative, dominance, opposition, division, superiority, collective, behaviorism

Poem / Religion and Spirituality

August 08, 2009

Reads: 271

Comments: 3

The Booksie Classic House

Quatrain about feeling betrayed by the world, from those who have put the most effort into seeing it flourish. Read More

Tags: poetry, religion, poem, hopeless, reconciliation, adrift

This is the continuation for If Only You Knew (TaylorShaeee's Challenge). This is in Morganne's POV and it happens a few weeks after Part 1. I can't think of a better title right now, so if you have one, please let me know ^^ Again, thanks to all who took… Read More

Tags: love, pain, eyes, sadness, soul, challenge, ending, reconciliation, if_only_you_knew

Not very good at summarising. Just saying that main character is Sylvania O'Donnell. It's about her families (mum's side - the Van Beeks and her dad's side - the O'Donnells) and the problems/issues they have. It's up to Sylvania to put her dysfunctional family together again. Australian spelling by the… Read More

Tags: love, wedding, family, happy, sad, hate, drama, fight, pregnancy, reconciliation, family_issues

As Rhonda struggles to forgive her ex-boyfriend over his abandonment, he must come to terms with his own newly discovered loss. Read More

Tags: love, loss, grief, forgiveness, reconciliation, repentance, farming

Poem / Poetry

May 09, 2009

Reads: 265

Comments: 4

The Booksie Classic House

Parents are proud - can forget the history Read More

Tags: love, relationships, pain, disappointment, hurt, parents, expectations, reconciliation

Short Story / Horror

April 30, 2009

Reads: 585

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A man with only half a body intervenes into the troubled relationship of a struggling young couple. Read More

Tags: love, loss, horror, death, childhood, terror, pain, loneliness, lies, key, lust, fighting, fright, john, barack

A divorced woman finds happiness in an odd coincidence. Read More

Tags: love, dating, murder, loneliness, poison, chance, coincidence, reconciliation

Poem / Poetry

December 26, 2007

Reads: 312

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Gettysburg Battlefield, 3rd Day Read More

Tags: reconciliation, futility

Race relations-Australia Read More

Tags: australia, short_story, reconciliation, race_relations

Poem / Poetry

June 13, 2007

Reads: 1380

Comments: 6

The Booksie Classic House

How would you feel if someone you thought had walked out of your life forever suddenly reappeared? Read More

Tags: poetry, relationships, rhyming, memory, healing, moving_on, meeting, reconciliation

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