Bent on the Wheel
by Ann Elwood
Oliver Morel isn’t sure who he is anymore. Once a software designer, now a truck farmer in Ramapo River, New Jersey? Around fifty years old? Married to his love Carrie, who has secrets? Not enough. All true. Not it. The only surprises in his life are the random thoughts that occur to him about, among other things, houseflies, high school, dragons’ teeth, the Garden of Eden, the puzzle of Nothing. So he writes them up in a paragraph or two. It’s his way of finding his way through the middle of life. A static life, with that just-before-a-thunderstorm feeling, until their daughter, Nancy, with her four-year-old son, comes to stay with them, and things begin to happen, mysterious and frightening, sometimes magic, and . . .
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