The Bridge

by Rob Murphy

There are singular choices in a person’s life that affect all the events from that point on. That single decision can define their life and begin great happiness or start a terrible downward spiral. Locked in a rainstorm traffic jam, Howard looks in his review mirror. A chill shot through Howard as he watched the frightening specter stumble towards him through chinks of light and glossy puddles as a frigid rain beat down upon his windshield. A flash of lightning revealed the hooded figure’s baggy silhouette, every inch a scape of rips, tatters, or some disgusting stain. As the apparition staggered toward him, instinct and terror urged the old man to drive. Yet, with no prior heroic ambitions, some louder voice, an unexplained intuition yelled at him to wait, that this was a person in need of help. Howard did not yet realize the next five minutes would forever change his life

340 pages, Paperback

Published April 17, 2021