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DeWitt Henry, Author
Category:
Literary Fiction
Publisher: Create Space
ISBN-10: 1523458275
Type: Fiction
Pages: 190
Copyright: Jan. 20, 2016
ISBN-13: 9781523458271
Price: $3.49 (eBook)
A collection framed by the motif of downfall, including a midlife rancher's protest against aging, a factory foreman's flight from grief, King Kong's seduction by Beauty, a writer's death-defying bungee jump, a police chief's humiliation, a Philadelphia executive's breakdown during World War II.
Excerpt
A flapper dives at me, stinging my throat so I gag and reel. I slump against the cone and fondle her once more, knowing it is finished. She will be safe. She will love. She will never forget. I pray for and bless her with all my being, my grief....They sting again. I grab my throat with both hands, gasp, off balance. Catch the tip with my right hand, left to my throat, still holding on; then slowly I can't hold on. I let go. Fall as I have never fallen....Dream: we are home. Souls same-sized, bodiless, braiding together now like strands of smoke.
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