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Chapter 31 Part 2
Ennis and David spent that evening sorting through ads in the Duluth newspaper and David made what seemed to Ennis to be endless phone calls looking for leads. Ennis spent the next morning following them after dropping David off at the store, ruling out more than a few trucks on sight. After picking David up in mid-afternoon he drove straight to a ( Read more... ) -
Chapter 31 - Part 1
Chapters 31 and 32: Ennis faces some hard realities about coming out; Jack helps him reconsider a bad decision.
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Chapter 30
Chapters 30, 31 and 32: Ennis puts down more roots in Duluth and faces some realities about coming out; Jack helps him reconsider a bad decision.
It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon before Andrea's borrowed van trundled down the last street of the quiet working-class neighborhood and dropped her client off at home. The two women seemed to ( Read more... ) -
Update in progress
This is just an apology to those who've written me in the past month wanting to know if Gift of Exile is still in progress.
The story hasn't been abandoned; I just hit a very rough patch with the next few chapters. I do intend to finish the story; if something unforeseen should happen to make that impossible, I'll be sure to post a summary letting ( Read more... ) -
Chapter 29
Somehow they were no longer sitting on the log but on the cold sand with their backs against it, legs and feet touching. Both were silent for a moment before Ennis answered.
“ ‘m glad you did. Came ta the wedding, I mean.”
“You aren’t gettin’ a very good bargain.”
“I didn’t come here lookin’ for that.”
“You didn’t come lookin’ for what ( Read more... ) -
Chapter 28 - Part 3
“But then,” David said, “We both had our 30th birthdays, that was in ’77. And that was a kinda wakeup call. Here I was, in my 30s now, supportin’ a family but goin’ home alone at night, and I started thinkin’, how long is it gonna go on like this? I didn’t know what to do about me ‘n’ Nathan but I did decide I wasn’t gonna pretend to my family any ( Read more... ) -
Chapter 28 Part 2
(Sorry for the long absence! I'd decided that the rest of Chapter 28, and Chapter 29, should be posted together.)
The fog was gradually thickening, white turning to whitish-gray as daylight retreated; but the hillside city across the water was still visible, with a few twinkles of electric lights appearing here and there. The Lake’s horizon was ( Read more... ) -
Chapter 28, Part 1
At the bottom of the outside staircase Ennis scanned the shoreline and Lake uneasily, thinking how cold the water was even in June and how quickly it could overcome a swimmer deliberately putting the shoreline behind him. Seeing nothing out of place off the beach was only slightly reassuring, as the fog had moved closer and now appeared as drapes ( Read more... ) -
Chapter 27
At Duluth’s high latitude summer days were unusually long, and sundown was still a few hours away when David’s car crossed the Aerial Bridge. But the mist that had been hovering tentatively over the Lake all afternoon was starting to thicken into fog, making it seem later than it was. They didn’t speak, but the silent tension stretched the ( Read more... )