IN THE WEEDS (AN EXCERPT)

This is not a nightmare!

This is not surreal!

What is happening right now is real!

And it is happening... In The Weeds!

RLJ

IN THE WEEDS  (AN EXCERPT)

(Webster City, Iowa)

...The top of these odd weeds sway in the breeze, their tips just above the top of my head.

I am directionless because I cannot see through the dense vegetation... the green is everywhere.

There is blood streaming down the front of my face and a raw, painful gash above my left eyebrow.

And from somewhere near, in what goddamn direction I cannot discern, a woman is crying out in pain as what sounds like dogs are gnashing and snarling between barks!...

RLJ