Gordon T. Allred

GORDON T. ALLRED recently completed his fortieth year as professor of English at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and holds a doctorate in creative writing and contemporary literature. This story serves as a prologue to Mokusatsu—Land of the Free, the first in a quartet of historical novels in progress.

Prologue to Mokasatsu

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 2

“You shall not do it,” she said. A mere murmur, those words, deceptively soft, even gentle. Almost subliminal, though distinctly determined to anyone who knew her as he did. She had, in fact, employed the…