It takes reps to get better. Those hours on the court, in the shed, and on the water translate to improvement.

Signs of the Times is a collection of writing exercises. For 100 days, I took the (digital) front page every morning and wrote a short story.

The project yielded some interesting stories with different perspectives.

All fictional. All very real.

Start with the three stories below.

Yes, there’s more.

Chiron
Jonah Svihus Jonah Svihus

Chiron

The grasses that reach up and collect dew in the shepherd’s crook…

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E.U. Sandwich
Jonah Svihus Jonah Svihus

E.U. Sandwich

Ritchy’s lips let loose a shred of prosciutto that landed on the table squarely between the two friends.

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Mirage
Jonah Svihus Jonah Svihus

Mirage

When would he feel sea spray again? Feel the uneasy first steps of a rolling sea with a powerful swell again?

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Agency Side
Jonah Svihus Jonah Svihus

Agency Side

She built the agency at the height of the Maidan Revolution. Her first client was herself.

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A Day Seaside
Jonah Svihus Jonah Svihus

A Day Seaside

Bakers and chefs and carpenters and teachers and plumbers. Now they hold guns and wave to me in the morning when I come back from the shore.

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Journos
Jonah Svihus Jonah Svihus

Journos

Aerosolized blood fills the air. Another explosion.

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S.O.S.
Jonah Svihus Jonah Svihus

S.O.S.

A face, burnt. Hair dark and bloody and wild. Lips cracked. Eyes that have nothing behind them and nothing before them and unable to hold Maria’s face.

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Georgia On My Mind
Jonah Svihus Jonah Svihus

Georgia On My Mind

She would revisit the mountains, revisit her father, swim in the memories of what had once been and what could be.

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