Chris Geherin

Once a nationally-recognized songwriter and historian, Chris finds the best of both crafts in writing short fiction. Become River would be his first published story.

Become River

When it left, it left as it had come, through the same breach in the same levee, though weary now and sluggish from its rampage. It left like the marauding creature they now knew it had been all along, left silent slow and sure to lie again in slumber, far between the fields. It had devoured everything it could and splintered what it could not swallow…