The General

It was not long before we realized the General was in another world. We could no longer see the the cotton combine out in the distance field, as we readily would see normally. He would disappear for days,lost in a past battle of his own making. Of course we were concerned, and when his wife Rivka called to check up on him, we would assure her that he was still out in the fields and soon would be coming back, when we knew that most likely he would remain for yet another night out in the darkness. And even in the break of day, when our expectations were high, still he would not appear.