Chaparral Parables
Matthew RobertsStories, observations, and mysteries from Southern California.
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A Poem for Good Friday
Our Hours of Shame
I. Weariness
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Three years of fleeing scribes and stones thrown at
the Son of Man and us if we stood too close
has made...
A Reader’s Companion to Till We Have Faces
He is better known for almost everything else: his Narnia books, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters. But I’ve gone gaga for C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces since I first encountered it in 2019. I’ve reread it at least five times s...
St. Mærwynn's Quilt (Fiction)
N.B. This is a work of fiction. I wrote it in early 2020, before the pandemic, and shortly after returning from a semester abroad in Oxford. All characters and events described here are fictional and do not reflect on my actual time there....
The Devil, the AI, and the Un-Man
The Fall of the Magician, Pieter van der Heyden, c. 1526. Public domain.
Near the end of The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky throws the narrative onto a surreal and extraordinary side track. Ivan Fyodorovich, the proudest and most i...
Chaparral B-Sides: "Dandelion Yellow"
In case you missed the series introduction, I’m posting three early stories from my 2017 collection, Stars, Sea, Storm, and Sun (now out of print). The first story in the collection, “This Midnight Canvas,” appeared earlier this month, and...
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I'm a writer of speculative fiction and poetry based in Southern California.
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