A Link in Time

By: Bill Ed Scruggs

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

How far is twenty-five years? Too far to get home again! Or is it? David Skinner left his country village with everything going for him, and came back with everything gone--his career, his marriage, his money, his parents, his family land. He holds his head high and lies to prosperous old friends while he burns with secret shame. The call of the carefree past--the adventure, the love, the being young--is breaking his heart. The love of his life Merilee is married and forever lost to him; yet as his bicycle rolls along the roads of his youth in the dark and silent nights that give no clue to what year it is, she seems almost within reach. The night breeze tickles like breath in his ear. The bicycle lurches on rutted roads as if weight is shifting on the rear seat. Stomach muscles tight from hard riding feel like hands gripping his belly. Can it be? Then the night breeze murmurs to him: "I never stopped loving you David. I'll be waiting when you come for me."