Writing the Past

A Chance to Write His Own Past

Elijah Carlyle wants to escape a past written by others.

But a Pinkerton detective dogs his steps, ready to bring him in for another’s crime.

Should Lije stop running and turn himself in before the past catches up with him?

Or will fate intervene, and allow him to rewrite his own history?

An excerpt from Writing the Past:

Lije decided to skip the road, just cut across the pan. A brilliant gibbous moon lit the ground like God’s gas lamp, and for now he appreciated the ghostly solitude.

Wrens sang as he and the companion beneath him slowly made their way toward Lije’s final reckoning. A few desert mice hopped and skipped away. From the mountain at his back, a puma screamed its womanly shriek, setting the hairs on his neck to dancing.

Lije felt at peace. With the world, with the past, and most surprising of all, with himself. Whatever came next, his soul would be clean. Scrubbed and scoured by the vast desert. By miles upon leagues along his backtrail.

Or maybe his soul had already winged its way toward whichever final destination…