David Milley is a retired technical writer and web applications developer who has written and published work since the 1970s. His writing has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Bay Windows, RFD, Friends Journal, and Feral. Milley lives in New Jersey with his husband and partner of forty-seven years, Warren Davy, who’s made his living as a farmer, woodcutter, nurseryman, auctioneer, beekeeper, and cook. These days, Davy tends his garden and keeps honeybees; Milley walks and writes.
My father wove his sermons long. Sundays, when he preached, the congregation settled in. They knew he’d be awhile. First, from Scripture, a verse, then its story, then history, exegesis, and, at last, the moral. Nothing moved quickly in Dad’s tales. He spun homilies in empty air. My eyes blinked and crossed. I squirmed. Mom […]
