Michael Hetherton

Michael Hetherton’s short story collection, Grasslands, was an Independent Publisher Book Awards finalist, Danuta Gleed Award nominee, and winner of a Saskatchewan Book Award. In recent months his stories have appeared in the UK in Confluence Magazine, Honest Ulsterman, and Litro Magazine, and in Adelaide Literary Magazine, NY. A novella expert is upcoming in Los Galesburg. He lives in Canada.

Faith in Life

We stayed close to a lone biker, tailgaiting him on the drive into Sturgis. His Harley floated around the long curves of shining blacktop, and up and down the slopes. The rocky pine-covered Black Hills were clear of clouds, the sky breaking open blue after an earlier rain. We were the only SUV in the long, long, procession of rumbling motorcycles, and we did not talk, transfixed by the constant, fast moving parade.