Author Archive for: Randall Franks

The waves beat  rhythmically against the shore in an endless pattern that seemed would never stop. I had stretched out in the back of my white Ford stationwagon  near the shore and the sound lulled me quickly to sleep.

I have been told there was a time when a person was judged upon the words that emanated from his mouth. A person’s character could be seen in his deeds and by what he would say and sometimes what he would not say. I have met many people in my life. Some, I would not […]

The sweet smell of honeysuckle lightly drifted over the back porch steps as I sit at the top of a thirty-step descent to the ground below. At three-years-old this was a surmountable achievement to navigate these without tumbling to the bottom. And in reality my mother was always watchfully standing by looking through the porch […]

I am walking across what seems to be an endless stretch of desert, with each step I hear my feet sink further and further into the sand. Each step is harder to make. The heat is unbearable as I stop and wipe my brow and replace my hat as I look up at a cloudless […]