General Delivery, Back from 'Nam

Description

SHORT STORY - 6485 Words. Back from Vietnam to small town John Day Oregon, Nick struggles with survivor's guilt from a firefight and tries to pick up his life again, when he is shocked by the wink of an eccentric and flashy girl in an old MG with an albino crow. He tries for days to find her and thinks he might have imagined the scene. He goes to the post office daily for letters from Charlie, a buddy in Saigon who lost a leg, and is helped there by Smith, a plain looking postal worker. Nick eventually finds the girl with the pet crow, succumbs to her dominatrix power. Will he escape? Can he find himself now that his family's gone and his old girlfriend is married? While there's a certain amount of humor in this tale, this one will make you think.