Entries by Michael Spake

Dog Days

  Thank you to Mandy Haynes and everyone at Well Read Magazine. for publishing my short story, Dog Days. I appreciate sharing a few images of my beloved grandmother, Hazel. https://issuu.com/articles/42091371

Where I Am From

During 2024, I have been inspired by Janisse Ray’s Trackless Wild Journey. Below is an excerpt of my writing from Exploration 33  describing where I am from.   I am from the land of Anderson, South Carolina, where time itself seems to shiver with the ancient echoes of creation when the earth’s primordial upheavals wrought […]

Merry Christmas

Each Christmas season, I open my “Milton” text from The Citadel. Year after year, it gets a little more ragged and torn, but now it opens without trouble to the exact page I always visit, On The Morning of Christ’s Nativity. Written by Milton when he was only a teenager, the theme of this remarkable […]

Pop’s Boat

  Thank you to Mandy Haynes and everyone at Well Read Magazine. for publishing my latest short story, Pop’s Boat. I appreciate the opportunity to share a few images and a story from fishing journeys long ago.