Stories: Voice In The Wilderness

Even a single helpless voice is sometimes enough to change the world.

Summary

After a fall leaves him paralyzed, a winter hiker gets some help from an unexpected source.

Story Data

Major Characters

• Roy, injured hiker

Dates of Story Events

• Sunset, Dec. 18, 1996
  • Era: Dragon In The Streets

Locations

• Unspecified snowy wilderness, probably in the American West

Trivia

• Lest you doubt the value of occasional re-reading and re-editing, it took me three years to notice that the main character was accidentally called "Ray" in the story's first sentence.
• A careful look at the timing of the story suggests there's even more going on here than the story tries to imply. The First Sighting was in the late afternoon of Dec. 18; even the earliest media coverage of it didn't start to spread until after dark ...

Read it at

http://www.tomorrowlands.org/nov2003.html#11142003∞

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