Julie Beals

Julie Beals was formerly an editor at the Smithsonian Institution, but is now schooling to be a speech-language pathologist. She hopes to work in adult rehabilitation with people who have brain injuries. She has one desk for her speech affairs; another for her fiction writing.

Onslaught

You are moving forward! You are moving forward. You’re cruising down the road in your jeep, on the way to work. The leather seat is cool beneath you; the world that’s passing by is overcast, but the yards and flora surrounding the nearby houses are almost a fluorescent green. There was a thunderstorm the night before.