Sam DeFranco

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“A Meeting at Akko Bridge” by Sam DeFranco

Submitted to Contest #255

For the first time in years, my leg didn’t hurt. You see, I have a slight kink in my lower spine that causes a constant low-level pain. I have mostly learned to live with the pain but on that day, I was especially grateful for a reprieve. It was on a Friday in September 1970 when I walked along a narrow, little-used trail that wound through a dense forest in northwest Pennsylvania. I was on a quest to find something, anything that would help me understand what happened to my father during the war.As a child, our relationship was wo...

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Hi, my name is Sam and I have long loved writing, which has been primarily of the technical type due to engineering career. I hold a BSc in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Engineering Science. I am an experienced musician and recording engineer. My current writing projects have been primarily Christian worldview based observations on life and living that I publish on SubStack. I am currently working on my first novel.