Beginning with Cannonballs by Jill McCroskey Coupe

Author:Jill McCroskey Coupe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2020-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

“My meeting,” Gail said. “I really do have to go. I’ll call you back as soon I can.”

“No need,” Hanna said. “Just look at this morning’s Metro section, first page. The Washington Post. Go to a newsstand if you have to.”

And they hung up.

Gail would find a newspaper. She’d see his photo.

During the time when his wife, Marsha Lucerne, was being treated for cancer at George Washington University Hospital, he must have walked down to the Mall at lunchtime to take a break from all that misery. When Marsha died, he took her home to Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and buried her and put their house on the market. Then he returned to Washington. With Glory.

All he had on him was his wife’s driver’s license, an expired one from Ohio, so it took the authorities a while to figure out who he was.

His sister, in Charlottesville, had been worried about him, because he was very religious, and she was afraid he might try to join his wife in heaven.

That’s what she told the Post, anyway.

Paul Lucerne was found hanging from a tree on the Mall. There was no mention of Glory.

What if, what if, what if?

What if one crazy person had sat down on a park bench with another crazy person? What if she’d learned his name and listened to his story? What if he’d listened to hers?

What then?

Would they have held hands? Kissed? More than kissed?

Feeling numb, Hanna climbed the stairs to the guest room and lay down on the bed. Where she’d slept last night. Where she often slept.

She knew every blemish in the ceiling. Every sorry one of them.

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