andrew paul cannon

Tag: fiction

  • Is the Bible full of Myths? Trick Question.

    Is the Bible full of Myths? Trick Question.

    There are a few people today who will say that the Bible is full of myths, and excuse themselves from believing in Christ on that basis. This statement is interesting because the word, “myth,” could mean one of two things formally. First, a myth could mean “a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history…

  • The Coyote: competition actually limits success

    The Coyote: competition actually limits success

    I remember the silence. Only the breeze could be heard whistling over the hill and through the trees and the sun barely gazed over the horizon. It was that part of the morning when everything looked like a silhouette against a dim purple backdrop. I sat against a tree, hidden from the world looking down…

  • Confessions

    “I am now an old man locked in chains. I will never forget the day when the tribals rose up and took this world. A woman led them and, because of my own pride, was able to overtake my people. They killed us all, even put a bullet in my brain, but as I described…

  • Soul Theory (My idea for a Zombie Thriller)

    © Andrew Cannon. All Rights Reserved 2015 “We are going to lose her!” one doctor exclaimed as he waited for the defibrillator to charge. “1, 2, 3” he zapped the woman on the operating table, but the readings on the computer did not change. Once more he counted and zapped the woman, but she lay…

  • Be We Free? (the first chapter)

    Human Desire for Freedom: Can Freedom Be Had?   Man is begat in bondage and there is nothing he can do to escape it. His desire for freedom outweighs his desire for life, yet he is trapped in life. He is a slave to governments and to perception and to morality and to circumstance and…

  • Fusion: the teenagers

    I wish there was a way I could describe you. With a beauty so immense you’ve got me entrenched in such a deep fascination I would do anything for you And I long to once again be enveloped in this deep, double edged infatuation You are the shooting star upon which much of my hope…

  • Fusion: Year One (Shorty Short Story)

    “Mr. Purdue, Mr. Purdue, are you alright. I need you to wake up, sir!” A young man shook an older man gently, but frantically, as he feared for his life. “Sir!” his voice more elevated, “The pilot is dead and no one else knows how to fly a space ship! Sir!” Purdue pained himself to…

  • Fusion: a shorty short story for you

    Journal Entry 248 [Lunar 1, 400] It’s been 400 years since we entered the Promised Land. Today is the anniversary. We missed the apocalypse. This story has been handed down through the generations. They told us the story of our exodus from the earth and of how God saved us before we knew what was…

  • Excerpt from “Sophie Monroe”

    Excerpt from “Sophie Monroe”

    Oh what anyone who was thirsty, truly thirsty, would give for want of drop of water. For to be a slave to a parched lip seems the most devastating of subjectivities. How then, oh how much more so is the devastation of greater and more phenomenal subjectivities? The sun rises in the morning and rests…

  • Acquisition

    “Mommy, mommy! Look what I found! Look, look, look!” A small child ran up to her mother as they were spending time together in the neighborhood park. She was holding a simple diamond necklace that reflected the radiant sunlight beautifully, almost hypnotizing its viewer. “Honey, where did you find that?” asked her mother hesitantly, “It…