Today, I want to share a short story I wrote for our American Christian Fiction Writers Louisiana Chapter collection.

You can find the book at this link. My story is a cautionary tale of a future in which our freedoms have been significantly curtailed. And so, in celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

Self-Evident

By

Bruce Hennigan

Our helmet lights illuminated a pitch-black corridor filled with broken marble and stone. Jackson paused beside me and held up his arm to study the sensor readout on his wrist display. His ordinarily white environmental suit was covered in gray dust from the carnage around us. Although decades had passed since the last battle, the damage still appeared recent.

“Branson, I’m pretty sure we are finally in the right place.” He said over the radio.

I consulted my own readout. My name, Lieutenant Mary Branson, blinked above a tiny dot on the map of the interior of this building marking our location. We had climbed over broken stone and collapsed ceilings for almost an hour now. “I hope so. Our air is getting low, and the radiation exposure is climbing. We have about twenty five minutes. Then we have to bail.”