The First Light of Evening (Kindle Single)

"Three years ago, when my son was still in college and my daughter lived across the Bay, my wife packed her car with her clothes and things, discussed with me her reasons for taking half the savings and, after a farewell which I cannot recall verbatim, she left..."

In this short story, which won a Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award, a retired schoolteacher in his sunset years gets his first glimpse at the failures in his life, cracking a window open to everything, and everyone, outside. (Cover design by Adil Dara Kim.)