Richard Badalamente

The sun was just rising over the mountains that stood like monuments over the Valley of the Dead, silhouetting date palms in the distance and painting the lazy Nile gold. Elizabeth used her tee shirt to wipe her eyes. What made Brian pick this place for their vacation? Valley of the Dead, for God’s sake. She turned abruptly and walked back to the hotel. The three flash fiction pieces in this small collection tell the separate stories of three women, who for very different reasons, find themselves in Luxor, Egypt, reexamining who they are and why in the world they are here in this ancient, dusty, mysterious land. Elizabeth is one of them. She and her husband, Brian, have just lost a child.… (más)