Author: heathercmorris

  • Saunder’s Hill – The Sled, Part 1

    Saunder’s Hill – The Sled, Part 1

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    The “Saunder’s Hill” collection of stories is one I began in high school and hope to continue now. Perhaps one day, I will gather them all into a children’s book. For now, enjoy. All I could think about was snow. All through school the day it started, on into that night, and the next day…

  • Rend

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    Render-rent stem from which scent erupted, Parallels my soul, corrupted, Whose save-soul beauty is God-granted fragrance, And it is the essence Of a spirit-sigh released from sin’s groping roots. © 2019 by H.C. Morris

  • Stories That Shape Us – The Princess and the Pea

    Stories That Shape Us – The Princess and the Pea

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    How did I end up here? Our days can drift along as quietly as a slow, calm current ambling downstream. The branches overhanging the banks of our lives rarely vary; the view remains fairly similar – safe and familiar. But then… the river turns a bend and rapids appear. We find life is now dangerous,…

  • Mending

    Mending

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    I love finding pictures of the good news – the best news – hiding in the ordinary, hiding in plain sight. Like today, as I stood in my laundry room and sewed up a hold in my dog’s crate pad before washing it. I had learned through experience that washing a dog bed with a…

  • Clara and the Cornbread

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    How can time pass so quickly? I happened across this short children’s story/poem today while browsing through my writing folder. Immediately, I was flooded with memories of a brown-haired, petite toddler begging to help me stir the cornbread mix every time I made it for dinner. The toddler days are long past for my little…