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Windhovering is the online home for the writing of Jerry Windley-Daoust. Here, you can browse my short fiction, published books, and various & sundry essays and articles. If you like what you read, follow my writing via the subscription links in the sidebar on any page. You can also find out more about me and why I named this site Windhovering.
Angeling 6 | welcome to the have it all mall
Jonah didn’t know exactly what he expected to see when he stepped from the elevator, but he had a vague sense that it would be something mysterious and otherworldly. A […]
Angeling | 5: dead people don’t wear bellybuttons
The instant Jonah let go of his grandfather’s hand, his shadow jerked him backward, hard—like a parachute suddenly braking a skydiver’s fall, but in reverse. Okay, that was a bad […]
Angeling | 4: over the brink of eternity
“And that is why we always wear a helmet, people,” Campbell quipped as he stood over Jonah, who lay unmoving where he’d landed, slightly to one side of home plate, […]
Anna should not open the door for the beautiful woman in black. How many times have her parents warned her against opening the door for strangers while she is home […]
Ransom was so small that the state highway department noted its existence only by the SPEED LIMIT 40 sign on the way into town and the SPEED LIMIT 55 sign […]
Soon as it was night, out we shoved; when we got her out to about the middle, we let her alone, and let her float wherever the current wanted her […]
Anyone who has ever joined the Winona Catholic Worker as a live-in volunteer has inevitably had The Conversation with his or her family and other relatives. With surprisingly few exceptions, […]
THE RIVER FLOWS SOUTH, AND ALL THE FLOWING WATERS OF half a continent run to it—morning dew, whole gray-white fields of melting snow, rain running down rooftops and cascading through […]
Short Fiction
- Foraging
She closed the book, placed it on the table, and finally, decided to walk through the door. She would not wait for him any longer, even though Edward […]
- Angeling 6 | welcome to the have it all mall
Jonah didn’t know exactly what he expected to see when he stepped from the elevator, but he had a vague sense that it would be something mysterious and […]
- Angeling | 4: over the brink of eternity
“And that is why we always wear a helmet, people,” Campbell quipped as he stood over Jonah, who lay unmoving where he’d landed, slightly to one side of […]
Books
- Touching the Hearts of Teens: Saint Mary’s Press, 1943-2001
Touching the Hearts of Teens: Saint Mary’s Press, 1943-2001, is a history of Saint Mary’s Press, the small Catholic publishing house run by the Christian Brothers of the […]
- Answering God’s Call to Covenant
Saint Mary’s Press, 2005 | 95 pages Answering God’s Call to Covenant helps older adolescents consider where they want to go in life before they encounter the crossroads […]
- Angeling 6 | welcome to the have it all mall
Jonah didn’t know exactly what he expected to see when he stepped from the elevator, but he had a vague sense that it would be something mysterious and […]
Essays & Articles
- The Catholic Worker is a Fool
Anyone who has ever joined the Winona Catholic Worker as a live-in volunteer has inevitably had The Conversation with his or her family and other relatives. With surprisingly […]
- Home on the River
Soon as it was night, out we shoved; when we got her out to about the middle, we let her alone, and let her float wherever the current […]