“Yesterday, she mentally swerved into an oncoming truck loaded with huge cedar poles, just before the IGA mall at Wilson Creek. How easy it would have been, what a mess of crumpled steel and burning rubber and spilled logs, but at the last minute she saw something that distracted her.

“What was it? A small dog, scuttling across the highway.”

                            – from the novel TIMOTHY ON THE BRIDGE, by Caitlin Hicks