Friday, August 12, 2011

Interrupted


The phone rings at 5 AM. It’s my brother-in-law. I look vaguely around my office over the garage where I have been sleeping due to the family reunion and try to figure out why he is telephoning me from the house. Only he isn’t in the house. He’s in a town 45 minutes away. He’s telling me my husband has had a heart attack and they just sent him by helicopter to the Cities. “By the time you get there, he should be coming out of the procedure.”

The Carpenter's Son, Sample Chapter

This is the oldest of the stories in this collection, begun in a flurry of inspiration more than forty years ago and revised many times over...