Tag Archives: fears

Like a Moth to a Flame

Posted on October 12, 2024 by mitchteemley

In The Wishing Map, “a modern Chronicles of Narna” (Disney), teenager Gina faces a shape-shifting creature that manifests her deepest desires Continue reading →

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An Unbearable Nakedness

Posted on February 15, 2022 by mitchteemley

From the album The Nightmare of Being by At the Gates My Real Memoir I had a recurring nightmare, beginning around age eleven. It evoked a landscape of dark red “hills” made of organs inside a diseased body. As I wandered … Continue reading →

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My Recurring Nightmare

Posted on February 8, 2022 by mitchteemley

Me at age 11, plus my altered version (I had a thing for scary movies) My Real Memoir I’m guilty, I know, of giving the impression I led an idyllic childhood. It’s true that I was a proto-storyteller with a … Continue reading →

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Windows

Posted on November 22, 2019 by mitchteemley

Few objects are so suffused with meaning. They’re seldom “just windows.” They are symbols of the past or of the future. Of possibilities, or missed opportunities. They taunt us with freedom. Or separate the unruly world outside from the neat … Continue reading →

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Set Aside Your Fears and Walk!

Posted on September 8, 2019 by mitchteemley

Moonrise over the Sea of Galilee, the same body of water upon which Jesus called Peter to do the impossible, to set aside his fears and walk.

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The Wishing Map 123

Posted on January 9, 2016 by mitchteemley

Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Twenty-Four: The Long Night (continued) Previously: After many desperate days of anticipation, Gina was finally called to face her Questing Beast. ⇔ ⇔ ⇔ She managed to get to her feet, … Continue reading →

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