The Tree Line
by Andrew J. Olinde, Jr.
Price: $2.99 USD. 6090 words.
Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing on August 23, 2010. Fiction.
The Tree Line is a about a melancholy Confederate captain who is struggling with the perilous combina-tion of war and alcohol addiction. The cruelty of the American Civil War not only affects the captain, but it also affects the emotional state of his deteriorating wife who resides in Union-occupied New Orleans. In desperation, the wife asks her husband to make a promise.