Tag: Joe Shaw

• The Story Is Free, The Cat Will Cost You

  Joe Shaw finishes up our Halloween free stories. As always he reminds us why he is the one his family never turns their back on. Ever. Something about this story reminds me of his first COVID Chronicle . . . This wraps it up for us on this cycle, but we will be back in…

  Jamie Greening

  October 30, 2020

  All, Writing

  Creepy child, Halloween Stories, Joe Shaw, murder, twins

• A Story About A Kind of Justice We’ve All Thought About

  To say Joe Shaw is a great writer is an understatement. His real gift is the turn of phrase. Also, he leaves Easter eggs which are just for me — like the phrase “block around” in the opening paragraph. Only old men in Blue Fords and Pastor Butch Gregory block around. I know, because once…

  Jamie Greening

  July 29, 2020

  Writing

  Free Fiction, Joe Shaw

• A Free Translation

  This story . . . oh my. I just don’t have the words to do it justice. Joe Shaw is a treasure we know about and the rest of the world will some day recognize as such. Today’s COVID Chronicle is a parable we need today. We. Us. All of us. Click on the Codex…

  Jamie Greening

  June 16, 2020

  blogging, Books, Culture

  Bible Translation, Gospel, Joe Shaw, parable

• The Tree Might Be Dead But The Splinters Are Free

  When you read a short story, and then its over, and you spend a lot of time trying to think what it was telling you and deciding it could be fifteen different things — all of the fifteen things — you know the story was good. That is what we have here with Joe Shaw’s…

  Jamie Greening

  June 11, 2020

  blogging, Books, Culture

  COVID-19, COVID-19 Stories, Free Stories, Joe Shaw, Walter Mondale