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The First Light of Evening

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The First Light of Evening

Written by: Mark Ernest Pothier
Narrated by: John McLain
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"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.

©2012 Mark Ernest Pothier (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Literary Fiction Short Story
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