The Runway

By Michael Naugle

As two high school sweethearts and lovers are reunited after an eight-year absence, two tragedies are occurring. Pamela, at the age of twenty-six, is dying of cancer. Dwight, also twenty-six years old, is dying in a subtler way. Dwight has allowed financial success and prestige to erase his life’s passion. When fate brings these two long-lost romantic partners together during the last days of Pamela’s tortured life, everything that takes place after that is intended to allow you to meditate about difficulties and decisions that you will almost certainly have to face. Is all of your physical and psychological pain meant to simply be endured? Or is it your right to decide what limits you wish to place upon your own suffering? Finally, is it possible that a supremely patient and loving spiritual presence carefully knits together what might seem to be accidental or trivial events, so that even the darkest and most tragic of all of our lives disasters lead toward an ultimate state of ecstasy and transcendence?? Because these subjects are so crucial in all of our lives, I am offering “The Runway” to you as a free download. If this story assists you in any way, that will make my work worthwhile.
My best wishes to you,
Michael Naugle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Naugle
• Release date: Nov 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781628905540

Michael Naugle

Michael Naugle is a Professor of English Literature at Glendale Community College in Southern California. His particular areas of interest are poetry and Twentieth Century American, British, and Australian fiction. He has published a number of poems in literary magazines and has written a screenplay. Through A Fortress In Darkness was his first novel. His other works include Dinner with the Dark Heart Stranger, a short story collection, and The Summer Pier, to be released in December 2013. Find out more about Michael Naugle on his website, www.mojavewinds.blogspot.com.

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