Healing comes quietly, like dawn slipping through the trees. Pain softens; sharp edges dull. You learn to live with the ache, letting laughter return, bit by bit. Scars remain, but they don’t burn like before. With time, hope settles in, and your heart remembers how to trust the light again.

BETWEEN THE TRACKS – A Book of Short Stories by Darryl Armstrong AVAILABLE LATER THIS FALL I am not good at guessing anyone’s age; maybe she is six or seven. She stood in line behind me, eating a vanilla cupcake with icing smeared across her chin and wearing a massive pair of yellow firemen’s boots. […]

I’m seventy-five years old—ancient in this godforsaken world, and I’m too damn old to be getting angry. Blood pressure? I don’t need it skyrocketing on this wild ride. Most of the time, I let life pass me by like a bad dream. I figured out long ago that trying to change this circus is like […]

The moon. Full. It got him every time. No fur sprouted. No fangs. Just the flood. At seventy-five, peace should have come. It hadn’t. The moon dredged it all up. A jingle from 1986. The first chilly wind in September. Harry Anderson’s deadpan on Night Court. Triggers. All triggers. They hit hard and clean. Left […]

BETWEEN THE TRACKS – Short Stories – by Darryl Armstrong – Prepare yourself for an exhilarating journey of emotion and imagination, as these compelling tales will soon whisk you away into a world where every story is a window into the heart!

BETWEEN THE TRACK STORIES – About Dogs and One Cat Dogs have saved my life more than once. I am a firm believer that if you want unconditional love, there are only two sources: your Mom and your dogs. And as Will Rogers said, “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, […]

Louis and Oscar – A Short Story in BETWEEN THE TRACKS – Coming This Fall!

I certainly appreciated all the birthday wishes. To bring everyone up to speed, I have been working diligently and into the night for the past few days to get BETWEEN THE TRACKS – Short Stories, my first book to the publisher. We have now moved it across the fence to them. We will make an […]

A Coat of Many Colors “You must never feel bad about making mistakes … as long as you take the trouble to learn from them.” – Norton Juster It was hard not to feel guilty, nine-year-old Leland thought as he sat on the steps of the old Butler High School, looking down and feeling ashamed […]

Coming this Fall in my soon to be published book BETWEEN THE TRACKS – “5002 Steps” – A Short Story About Walking Tybee Island I started in photography in 1966 with a Kodak “Box” camera. For the next few weeks, I will share some of my photography that I call “A Lifetime of Photography.” It […]

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