As the great balloon bearing the image of a clock swoops across the River Grande, Pauly Caton watches her husband of four days fall from the sky. Who is the naked child who scrambles from the gondola when it strikes a sandbar and flees? Did she just imagine it? Why would he have been up with Rand...
He had all the pictures, measurements, and samples he needed. It was becoming important to get her embalmed as soon as possible; the museum would take care of that. They planned to use a new freeze-dry chemical that would preserve her indefinitely. When he’d called, they promised to set aside som...
Dan folded the letter and slipped it back into its lilac-scented envelope. Even his tech-savvy mother reverted to some time-honored Emily Post tradition of only the written word would do in matters of importance. He would have thought an email would have sufficed. Not the guaranteed to get there ...
Elaine had dropped him off and then took off for Las Vegas for some serious grocery shopping. Eggs, bacon, and frozen things past their expiration dates had gotten old…literally. He’d forgotten what a fresh veggie even looked like. It was amazing how elastic a month-old carrot could become withou...