This is the short story that started this journey for me. It’s only fitting it be the first piece I post on this blog. Some You Can’t Heal The crack of the whip as it connected with flesh ripped through my ears and terrified me beyond all I’ve ever felt. As the second strike rang out, tears flooded my eyes to the point where I couldn’t see. The third made my knees buckle, but I stood firm against…
After starting his professional career as a high school theater and speech teacher, SD Reid refined his calling in education while teaching adults. After growing wearing of the bureaucracy of the public school system in Texas, he made the only logical and packed his things and moved to Eastern Europe. There he taught English as a foreign language for a little more than three years. Upon returning to the states, he continued his work in adult education, teaching GED…
Since I was a little kid, I always wanted to write, but it wasn’t until recently that I put any effort into making that happen. I have attempted many projects over the years, most of which were abandoned before completion. But in the summer of 2016, I stumbled across a short story contest with a theme I could relate to. I wrote out a piece I felt was pretty good, and I asked a friend of mine (a poet) if…