A high functionary in a dictatorship is sent into exile, facing an uncertain, yet strangely comfortable future.
The Exiled Shore
Author: Mike Lee
Mike Lee is a writer, labor journalist and photographer based in New York City and Managing Editor of Public Employee Press, the voice of District Council 37, AFSCME. Fiction and forthcoming publications include West Trade Review, The Ampersand Review, Paraphilia, Sensitive Skin, Reservoir, The Avenue, The Drunken Llama, Visions Libres, Glossolalia, Dime Show Review, The Scarlet Leaf Review, The Euonia Review, The Solidago Journal, The Flash Fiction Press, The Peacock Journal, Third Street Writers, The Corvus Review, Violet Windows and The Potomac. His stories are featured in several anthologies, including Forbidden Acts (Avon) and Pawn of Chaos (White Wolf). A story collection, titled All Your Ambition, is published in Germany by VL Editions.
Complicity
Unfortunately, sometimes self-awareness arrives long after the opportunity to make a difference.
Texas Football
A high school football game in Texas in 1981. A time and place as dead and gone as the glories of Rome.