Andrew arrives in the town of Knosting after he has been fired from his job at a big-city university, and a series of murders start happening soon after. He decides to apply his research skills to investigating these in order to find the killer and to write a book about the case. Though still recovering […]
Seeing Others Grieve The group again, but much smaller than Will remembered it. He had competing urges: sit alone in the chair at the end of the semi-circle, or find out all he could about these people. He recognized at least one face from his first meeting, and he wondered about the half-dozen or more […]
Start with the baby. See it, see him, open his mouth for the warm sweet milk in the glass bottle with the sterile rubber nipple, see him cradled in his mother’s left arm, partially down the length of it, sloping from the arm to her lap—or gooey food, too, see him open his mouth for […]
Monday, January 1, 2001 You always forget the details. I was sitting up in bed last night after midnight—so, technically, the first day of the new year—using my little Sony tape recorder to make a cassette letter for my friend Austin. I answered the questions which he had asked me on his last one, but […]
Will starts drinking more beer after his wife Joni is killed in a car accident. He has a bath with her the day she dies, but she leaves and drives to the airport for the trip to a conference, and is slammed into by an SUV going the wrong way up the exit, while Will […]
Chapter 40 I am sitting in a chair in a semi-private hospital room, waiting for my grandfather to die. Not waiting in the sense of wanting, but in the sense of having accepted what a couple of years of bodily deteriorations have reduced him to, and so simply attending the end. And, yes, often I […]