Every victim has a story
Several years ago, while walking a trail along Monument Creek in downtown Colorado Springs, I came upon a scene in which EMTs were pulling the body of a dead person out of the water beneath a bridge. The scene was cordoned off, so I had to observe from a distance and couldn’t see much detail. Yet my morbid curiosity gave way to imagination, prompting me to write about what I saw, and to share a little piece of fiction. I originally posted it on Facebook and got a few likes. One included a comment from an old friend, Danny Moore, who claimed he was disappointed because he thought ...