Lantern Journal 
By Tom Sheehan
Westerly Again recounts a piece of a long walk to the Pacific. The Saugus River flows down to the Atlantic past the First Iron Works in America (1636-42), across from my home. We drove a friend from here to a Canada-bound train to start his walking journey west across Canada. We didn’t see him for 10 years.
Tom Sheehan served in 31st Regiment, Korea, from 1951-52. His books are Epic Cures and Brief Cases, Short Spans, A Collection of Friends, From the Quickening, Korean Echoes, and The Westering. His published and upcoming short fiction can be found in Rope and Wire Magazine, Rosebud Magazine and Ocean Magazine. Tom has received eighteen Pushcart nominations for his work.