Frederick Foote is a retired State of California worker and community college instructor. He lives in Sacramento, California and writes plays and short stories.
Conclusion. The rioting mob at the clinic will be reported, and the meddling nurses will be blamed -- how dare they treat cholera patients! And now, what next?
The makeshift clinic has become the center of the nurses' lives, cholera a focal point of their attention. But it is Zimbabwe, and "cholera" is a word that is not to be mentioned...
The work in the medical encampment is unending; so many people are sick the nurses will never be able to see them all. Yet this is exactly what has drawn them to this hopeless place...
Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced when the shantytowns were destroyed; but when the walls came down, cholera was left behind. Who can live in luxury while people die?
Greeted on their arrival in Zimbabwe by cholera death, Suzanne and the nurses must take stock of their journey to this place in order to understand the direction they must take. Part Two of Eight.
Mildred and Jerry, Eddie, Joe and Charlie, and Dr. Matt -- and we don't forget Julia -- all of their lives have been touched deeply by the courageous German shepherd Rex. Too bad Rex can't talk ...
Having Rex in her life, even only part-time, has opened Mildred's heart wider than she expected -- wide enough to accept another dog, wide enough to let someone else get closer, too.
Ron Singer (b. 1941) lives in New York with his wife, the painter, Elizabeth Yamin, After having taught for 44 years, in 2008 Singer became a full-time writer. He has written librettos for two operas and published three books and numerous poems, stories, and articles about Africa. Recently, he completed three trips to various corners of that continent to interview pro-democracy activists for a forthcoming book, Uhuru Revisited (Africa World Press/Red Sea Press, 2013).
Mark Lyons has published stories in several literary magazines, including Whetstone (JP McGrath Memorial Award), Bucks County Writer, Sensations, and the Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts. He is a recipient of Pennsylvania Council of the Arts fellowships for 2003 and 2009, and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. (Originally appeared 2009-06-29)
Conclusion. He'd been one of the "Dukes," long ago in what seemed like a different life. He knew he never would be one again, but there is a second chance to be something else ...
Mitchell Waldman's fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in numerous publications. He is also the author of the novel, A FACE IN THE MOON, was co-editor with Diana May-Waldman of WOUNDS OF WAR: POETS FOR PEACE, and is Fiction Editor for Blue Lake Review.
