Amos Carter has a choice to make when he comes across the bloody young man on the side of the exact revenge or lay aside a lifetime of hurt and pain. His final decision forever alters both his own life and the life of the young man. “Leaving Samaria” takes the parable of the Good Samaritan and reboots it in the Deep South of the 1960s. This is a short story, approximately 4,000 words.