Dear Potential Reader,
Sure, it’s July. You probably have a cookout in your near future. A day the beach? A moment in the automobile where you realize you need a shower because you have absorbed all the chlorine in the pool?
But as you step between your air conditioned car through the blistering heat back into that perfectly central air cooled home, descend with me into the chillier moments of the year with my short story, THE LIGHT, about a man in a snowstorm and the things that can go wrong when things aren’t going right.
The following tale was written during cold weather, nearly immediately after a snow storm cut a work day short and my car’s tires lost traction for just a second and I bumped a curb when I tried to stop for an ill timed red light. The rest of the drive home through the world of a snowpocalypse I began to exam how life could be worse. How every hill, curve, stop (necessary and unplanned) could spur the end of the life I realized I treasured. I drove cautiously, counting down the curves, hills, and stops I knew awaited me.
What you are about to read is another tale of the Lady or the Hatchback Woman. She’s that lady with a car full of random things that always end up in another person’s possession, and that possession is what changes their life.
Hope you enjoy.
All the best,
DAN JIRE
