Story Overview

This story recognizes powerful forces, recognized and unrecognized, personifying themselves through sexual desire and participation in war. The time is the middle sixties. It is the fear of the known and the fear of the unknown.

Freddy Hope

Freddy Hope is a popular and respected leader among his peers. He believes that God has a plan for everyone. He seeks God's answer for the violence of combat.

Shawn Gordon

Shawn Gordon, a friend of Freddy's since early childhood, asks why to the institutional pronouncements, and struggles with the answers. He loves Sally Cliver.

Life Changes

An unplanned separation changes their lives forever.