Tim Fox's Blog (8)

What are you giving up in order to keep what you're not willing to give up?

Silence and patience often sound the same.

Things always seem worse than they are until they're worse than they seem.

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Original Integrity

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The Parable of Usk

by Tim Fox

     You would think, that after so many years of living among humans, I would be used to their strange appearance.  But I am not.  I still find myself arrested by the oddity of silent smiles made with lips and teeth.  And their wide eyes are not flame-orange, but hued in shades from almost black to pale blue, set in faces that can flex.  How hard it was to learn…

After: A Short Story

By Tim Fox

      I was a writer once.  Very successful, niched into the nature/ecology market, which basically meant I’d have experiences in dramatic, often injured, landscapes under mountains, sun and sky, reflect on the broader meaning of those experiences through my keyboard and send the resultant story off for placement in one of the top global publications in the genre.  I belonged to a small, well-regarded…

The Parable of Salmor

 By Tim Fox

     You may not know this, but long ago, another great fish swam with Salmon up from the ocean into the river every year to spawn.  That fish was named Salmor.   

     They were siblings, Salmon and Salmor, but possessed of different hearts.  Salmon was committed to the tradition of his people.  Salmor, younger and more forgetful, cruised the places in…