Knox Bridger was first to call me fool. I remember smelling wet grass after he grabbed my brown paper bag and shoved me to the ground, “Gimme that, stupid fool!”
In reading your short fiction piece it makes me wonder what it would look like to do a first-person narrative of Jesus's foolishness. What would be the four brief scenes that he might highlight?
I wrote my own short story recently that, I think, takes the opposite take on foolishness and tries to show power as foolish, with a pair of old fools who have a run-in with Jesus. I'd love if you took a look! https://the17pointscale.substack.com/p/the-best-of-friends
In reading your short fiction piece it makes me wonder what it would look like to do a first-person narrative of Jesus's foolishness. What would be the four brief scenes that he might highlight?
I wrote my own short story recently that, I think, takes the opposite take on foolishness and tries to show power as foolish, with a pair of old fools who have a run-in with Jesus. I'd love if you took a look! https://the17pointscale.substack.com/p/the-best-of-friends
Nice idea! I look forward to checking out your piece, too. Thanks, Andrew.
I love this, Eric.
It’s a moving and insightful piece that challenges the current nonsense about empathy being a sin/weakness.
Thank you!