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.
Meta-Data
Author
BaxilDragon
Release date
Nov. 14, 2003
Word Count
1,600
Author Comments
This is half counterpoint and half counterpart to
Ward C 10:12 p.m.. One thing is for certain, emergency responders had one hell of a night after
The First Sighting.
Story Data
Major Characters
Dates of Story Events
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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