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Fiction & Allegory


That's How She Looked Back Then
"The geometry is wrong," his father’s notebook read. Beneath a skewed sketch of a doorway, a single sentence shivered: That's how she looked back then.
A floorboard creaked upstairs. A deliberate, weighty shift.
Then a voice drifted from the dark—a flawless reproduction of his father's cadence.
"Nathan," it called. "Come up."
Nathan froze. His father was buried weeks ago. Whatever waited above was playing a dead man's voice like a newly tuned instrument.

Chris Gambrell
Jul 2


Henry's Deliverance
On the morning of July 14th, 1940, Henry rose at three-thirty as was his custom, ate the breakfast Sara had left covered on the stove, dressed in his denim overalls and the hard hat with the carbide lantern fixed to the front, kissed his sleeping wife on the temple, and set out across the shanty town toward the wooded mountainside.
He was walking toward the mine.
He was walking toward something else entirely.

Chris Gambrell
Jun 9


The Briars
A house where the path has narrowed, the gate stands open, and the briars have been counting neglects long enough to believe they own the place.

Chris Gambrell
May 22


Groomed
The screen showed no name. A number I didn't recognize, and a call timer reading eleven minutes and fifty-three seconds. Nearly twelve minutes. Long enough to build something. Long enough to teach a girl to doubt every person who loved her.
I ended the call.
The argument started immediately—it always did.

Chris Gambrell
May 12


He Left the 99… for You (And Most People Miss Why)
What if God isn’t waiting for you to find Him—but has already come looking for you? This post explores the true story of the gospel, why Jesus came, and what it means that He left the 99 to find the one. If you’ve struggled with doubt, church hurt, or questions about the Bible, this will challenge what you think you know—and invite you to see it differently.

Chris Gambrell
Apr 20


Delay Is Soil
It didn’t start with something big.
It started with something small…
and no one stopped it.

Chris Gambrell
Apr 3


THE CITY IS ALIVE (BUT NOT THE WAY YOU THINK)
The city in The Destiny doesn’t just hold the story… it responds to it. And the deeper you look, the more it starts to feel like it’s watching back.

Chris Gambrell
Mar 30


The City Didn’t Break
The city didn’t break.
It corrected itself.
That should have been a comfort.
Instead… it was the first warning.

Chris Gambrell
Mar 27


Something Holy Is Starving
Decay doesn’t break down the door. It asks for a seat. A dark reflection on sacred things, slow ruin, and the cost of comfort.

Chris Gambrell
Mar 25


The Grey Fold: A Fable for a Failing Light
I didn’t mean to find it.Not in the shape it was in.
It began as an image—a vast, wounded creature.
Something holy.Ancient.Alive.

Chris Gambrell
Mar 25
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