On his fifty-second birthday, Les Marquis receives gifts from his wife, his daughter, his best friend ...and unexpectedly, from an accident victim in a busy city intersection.
The gentle hero of this introspective novella, a successful man by most definitions, seeks solitude in the last months of his life for a purpose he doesn't fully understand. On the last night of his... More > self-imposed exile, he unexpectedly finds himself in hand-to-hand combat with his personal demon—in the form of an antique mantel clock in a picturesque hotel room—and before long, the stakes go high.< Less
If the story of Creation were a morality play, staged for the edification of all those who followed, what might the protagonists have been doing just before it started? Herein, a peek backstage.
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