Author Spotlight: Stace Johnson

Which author is your biggest inspiration? I have had three mentors who inspired me at different times across the years, and all three have passed on. In college, poet and Nuclear Veteran Leonard “Red” Bird took me under his wing and nurtured my early writing. In later years, Ed Bryant and Melanie Tem both supported, …

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To Be Human By Stace Johnson

Neela sat by Kenna’s hospital bed, brushing back wispy white hair, the gurgling pumps only recently gone silent. Kenna’s hand rested, limp, in Neela’s. “My Heart.” Neela whispered. “Cancer? It’s unfair. To be human is temporary; you come and go, and hope you did good. But there’s always an end.” She caressed Kenna’s face. “Thank …