The Other Side
The people in the neighborhood called him Crazy Ed. He sat day after day on an ashcan in the alley staring at the dirty brick wall. Most didn’t know where he had come from or why he was there.
Ed was a quiet man with silver hair, and a sad expression on his face, so they left him alone. Few noticed him and most paid no attention to what-so-ever him.
One year a young boy named Johnny, broke his leg, and bored sat with Ed and heard his story. The story of the trip to another place, another dimension, where Ed met his soul mate, not understanding her culture, he was frightened and went back, only to find out that he was lost without Isle.
Once in a while if a spare moment presented itself some wondered who he was, until one day Ed disappeared.