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The Wayfarers trilogy by author Jim Yackel

Sunday, March 6, 2011

"Into the Sun" - a Wayfarers Chronicle by Jim Yackel


Up out of the tunnel and into the sun....In this tunnel are gales and snowy cold. Cobwebs, spiders, centipedes, and dust exist in the freeze and seem unaffected. We've thought many times that we were onto the escape route but alas we were mistaken. It has seemed like we'll never get out of this tunnel.

We have wondered what acts we have committed that would condemn us to this underground existence. This is no life but in fact a mere subsistence. We have petitioned aloud "why God, why?" We have had angry fists shaken at us by the demons we've met, and conversely some scraps dropped through the street-side grates by the benevolent in order to help us along. Still, we are condemned here, looking for an escape into the sunlight...(more here)

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