Expendable Lives

If my words of comfort could change a boy’s life, how much more I would have done as a woman, a teacher, a mother—such thoughts came lashing onto my mind on my way back home.


She called and called aloud. Alas, her voice fell on ears deafened by life and death. She could still hear the cries of the wilderness to save them the inferno, the forest fire.


Read, Reflect, React.