{"id":1308,"date":"2020-12-16T21:41:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farefwd.com\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2020-12-27T02:02:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T02:02:05","slug":"lost-in-the-giant-corn-maze-i-call-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/16\/lost-in-the-giant-corn-maze-i-call-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in the Giant Corn Maze, I Call 911"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Lost in the Giant Corn Maze, I Call 911<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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By David Wright<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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And the woman who answers sounds like Meryl Streep<\/p>

doing a Czech voice or a Russian maybe, and she stays<\/p>

with us until the EMT from Sacramento arrives, weedwhacker<\/p>

and oxygen tank in tow. My brother by now has opened<\/p>

his flask of Jameson, and his daughter sat down four turns<\/p>

back and started singing Taylor Swift. She\u2019s not fine at all<\/p>

and it\u2019s the only way we know she\u2019s fine. We were all fine<\/p>

until no one else passed by. I\u2019ll tell you that once in school<\/p>

I was the monster in the Frankenstein haunted house<\/p>

and now I feel terrible about how I reached for the mother<\/p>

whose child was already wetting herself. My green hands<\/p>

and her bare, brown arms when they touched\u2014static shock.<\/p>

So now I know what it\u2019s like to be in the near dark and afraid<\/p>

that around each curve is another dark row and a Steven King<\/p>

face ready to tell you: you are alone and this is the last thing<\/p>

you will ever see. Hell. It\u2019s a Sunday afternoon and church<\/p>

was the last place we went before we drove over here. Insurance<\/p>

will pay for the ambulance ride. But who will explain to God<\/p>

that when I am afraid, it\u2019s not Him, or a hymn, or a prayer<\/p>

that comes to mind but the final lyric in a pop song, the face<\/p>

of a cartoon monster telling me the only way to be saved<\/p>

is to call for help on a phone. How sweet the amazing ringtones<\/p>

of grace, straight to my ear from the darkening skies.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Lost in the Giant Corn Maze, I Call 911” by David 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