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THE COWARDLY LION. Chapter XVII
I walked outside the office and onto the gravel trail leading up to the parking lot I’d come down from earlier in the day. I heard a motorcycle start up behind me. I stopped and turned. The motorcycle drove slowly up to me on the gravel. I stepped off to one side....![The Cowardly Lion, Chapter XIV](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HalfMoonBayDragStrip.jpg)
The Cowardly Lion, Chapter XIV
I’d been home for a week before my first contact came in from Oak Knoll, but it wasn’t from the medical side. It was from Johannson, the Marine Corps liaison officer both Mary and I’d dealt with when I was in the ward with the other prisoners. The call came in at...![THE COWARDLY LION, Chapter X](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/OK-2927-L-1.jpg)
THE COWARDLY LION, Chapter X
The flight was nothing more or less than a disjointed series of buzzing noises, vibrations, and brief bouncing bouts where my plastic cocoon swayed out a few inches from the metal bulkhead, and then gently smacked back into it. I was aware, but unaware, both at the...![TWENTY-SIXTH DAY, SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/M198.jpg)