Autumn
Autumn is a colorful time of year. I hope that you will get out and enjoy the beauty of the season. I hope my blog reflects some of the beauty as well. For sports fans, it's football season and basketball season has just begun. The holiday season is also coming. But of all seasons, November 5 will be a day that lives in infamy. On November 5, we will choose the direction that this country is headed. I will not use my blog to influence which candidate you should vote for, but voting is something that we all need to do whether we mail our ballots in or whether we pull the lever in the voting machines.
In this edition of my blog, I will feature four new stories; two that are fiction and two from my memoir. According to the notices I have received, I noticed more people have been visiting. I can only hope the visit was worthwhile to you. My promise is there is no admission charge and there is nothing to purchase.
Included in this edition are the following my creative efforts:
- "Hello, I've Been Hit by a Truck." Accepted by Reedsy September: This is one of my memoir stories about riding my bicycle through an intersection when I got hit by a truck. It happened in August 2006 when I was starting my daily bike ride. There is a question of justice and a clear indication when all was said and done, I won this confrontation.
- "Prodigal Son Returns" Accepted by Reedsy September 2024: Daniel Forseegan is the modern equivalent of the Prodigal Son when he returns to his ailing father to seek forgiveness for leaving after his father puts a gun to Daniel's head. When he visits his father in hospice twenty years later, he realizes that he will never be granted his father's full forgiveness, instead he must settle for his father's acknowledgement of the past.
- "Searching for Sasquatch" Accepted by Reedsy September 2024: Connor Deschutes is fascinated with Bigfoot or sasquatch. While on a boy scout campout, Connor comes across a sasquatch who is hurt. Using his first aid kit, he helps the legendary creature. Getting back to his Boy Scout troop and tells the others what he saw. When they hike into the woods, Zig, one of the scouts is attacked by a bear, but the sasquatch Connor helped, comes to rescue them.
- "I Remember Drowning" Is a reprint of a story I put on my blog a few months back. It is part of my memoir when I went on an outing on the American River in June 1993. During the white-water rafting trip, our boat overturned, and I was pushed into the current of the river. After a very scary ride in the current where I felt like I was going to drown, I managed to come to the surface of the raging river.
From what I've been told the weather is getting cooler, but in Arizona where we used to live, and my daughter Tegan is living there presently that they have had over a hundred days of triple digit temperatures (breaking the old record of 83 days).
