“You had me at ‘steak.’ Besides, I think I’d better start getting to know my future partner a little better. I’m in!”
Carli beamed, and Bill expertly speared the steaks with a long grilling fork, flipping them onto a serving tray in one smooth motion. He handed the platter to his daughter and settled onto his crutches, ready to tackle the narrow stairs up to his tiny apartment where they would add another place setting at the small kitchen table. The place was cramped and hot, and it was the scene of a memory of Angela Canfield that he would just as soon forget.
But, right now, none of that mattered. Carli was alive, and she was going to be fine, and that was all that mattered.
THE END
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I’ve been fascinated by the power of the written word my whole life, penning my first thriller somewhere around the age of ten. In this short story, a young man gets lost in the woods during a fierce winter snowstorm and his body is found months later huddled against a tree, a single teardrop frozen onto his dead cheek. I suppose this gives you a fairly accurate insight into my genre sensibilities.
I attended the University of Notre Dame with the intention of majoring in newspaper journalism before changing direction after my freshman year and majoring in Business Administration, a degree I received in 1981 and have to this day never put to use.
After graduation, and despite having never set foot inside an airplane, I was hired by the Federal Aviation Administration and began training as an air traffic controller, a job I have held ever since, working in Providence, Rhode Island, Bangor, Maine, and, for the last twenty years controlling traffic at Boston’s Logan International Airport.
I am a proud member of the International Thriller Writers, New England Horror Writers and Short Mystery Fiction Society, I live in Londonderry, New Hampshire with my beautiful wife of nearly thirty years, Sue, our three children, one granddaughter, and Midnight the Miracle Cat, who has survived more adventures than the rest of us combined.