• Fiction

    Worthless People – An excerpt from the book (Part 1)

    By Tim Wilson “In the discarded husk of yesterday’s sugarcane, the ant sees a harvest.” African proverb Brad glanced in anticipation at his two friends as they stood at the edge of the African rainforest that would be their home for the next few days.  Between the guarded gate of Highland Academy and the forest’s edge, they had divested themselves of all things Western; from here on, they would speak only Swahili, their first language. Highland Academy, the boarding school, provided an American-based education to the children of foreign workers in Africa.  Most of the students were in Africa temporarily while their parents, on professional sabbaticals, did relief work; these…