The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford

Author:Jeffrey Ford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media

Botch Town

Story Notes

As a way to commemorate the publication of their twenty-fifth book, Golden Gryphon Press published an anthology with stories by most of the authors they’d worked with up to that point in time. That book is The Silver Gryphon, and I had a story in it, “Present from the Past.” If you were kind enough to have read that story, you’d know that at the end the narrator finds a black-and-white-bound notebook he’d hidden beneath a tree many years earlier when he was a child. “Botch Town” is the contents of that notebook. It’s a story of another time and place, a homage of sorts to the town where I grew up and the people who lived there. Like any group of people from any time and place, they exhibited traits of courage and honesty and love and stupidity and selfishness and cruelty. In other words, they were all, in their own way, doing their best to live a life. They’ve stayed with me through the years and their acts and stories have fortified my own life, especially Jim and Mary and Dolores, for whom this piece is dedicated.

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