"Lake Jeptha" by Mat Twassel (Mmtwassel@aol.com). Guest Review by BillyG (hayden@mindless.com).

Mat Twassel's story, "Lake Jeptha" wrung my heart with the sweet poignancy of a long-ago memory - soft nights and loving and aching desire. It touched that hidden place of vulnerable remembrance when once, almost a fleeting flash, we were hopelessly in love.

And then, inevitably there comes yet again the tender hurt of a memory so indelibly etched, unspoken, unacknowledged for years, but still there, so terribly real and terribly fresh. We see once more that time is not a dimension recognized by the subconscious. Mat Twassel's siren call pulled me back to that bittersweet recollection as if it were just yesterday.

Read this. It's a rare, rare treat.