Driving Down Pass Road, Book 1, Part 3

 by David Greg Taylor An old toad broke the surface of the creek to peak at a boy of nigh on eleven years old, sitting at the edge of a stream in the middle of a pine forest outside Biloxi, Mississippi. The child was staring at a copse of trees across the water. Behind the lad was his back yard, where his sister Lillian was chasing fireflies and holding them in a dungeon designed from a Mason jar.  Lillian was three hundred sixty-four days younger than her brother. She was born exactly one year after Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in as the thirty-fourth president of...