A busy intersection; pouring rain. She must make a choice.

One direction offers comfort, everything she’s ever known. The other promises pain and more than a little adventure.

She steps off of the sidewalk, passing by her battered, bloody shoe, taking a turn away from the world and into eternity.

A. Elizabeth Herting is an aspiring freelance writer and busy mother of three living in colorful Colorado. She has had short stories featured in Bewildering Stories, Peacock Journal, Dark Fire Fiction, Friday Fiction, Under the Bed, and Fictive Dream. She has also published non-fiction work in Denver Pieces Magazine and bioStories. More info is available on her website and Facebook page.