Extremes of Human Endurance

Extremes of Human Endurance by Rebecca Chekouras Yellow sunlight crests the towering main gate and filters through the high branches of the acacia tree outside our night house. With little else to do, I laze in my nest bed, the only one awake; sole witness to the...

Happy Lucky Gas

Happy Lucky Gas by Rebecca Chekouras She was a patient woman and wary. She did nothing to tip her hand except, perhaps, set the plate of eggs and toast on the dining room table with a too hard click of melamine on wood. She went to the kitchen and returned with...