SAVING MYRON

Myron’s life is a knot of twisted and painful stories. Having lived fifty-two rough years,
he knows well those things that God will save him from and those things that God will not. God 
will save him from a car accident, but not if there is fire involved. In a fiery crash God would not
release his seatbelt, so Myron refuses to wear the device. Years ago he disconnected the seatbelt
alarm in his vehicle. When his wife is in the car, she makes him put on the belt. She has no faith
in God to save him either way. 

Born and raised on the Kansas prairie, Cheryl Unruh often writes about small-town life. She has twice received the Kansas Notable Book Award for her collections of Kansas essays, Flyover People, and Waiting on the Sky, both published by Quincy Press. Meadowlark Press published her collection of poetry, Walking on Water, as well as her Gravedigger’s Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town, a memoir.  Cheryl is the editor of 105 Meadowlark Reader, a Kansas journal of creative nonfiction. She and her husband live in Emporia, Kansas.