Many thanks to all of those people who have bought my first book, Reflections in a Paper Mirror, a collection of poetry. As you know, I am working on a book for the start of 2008, From the Darkness. While working on that, I also started another book, titled 51 Days in Isolation. What follows below is an excerpt from that work-in-progress manuscript.
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The day I got the call, I was busy. Of course I was busy. I was always busy. I’d been busy for nearly five years since starting my new position as Marketing Manager for Leavy and Wilks. I’d been so busy that I hadn’t been home to Sault Ste. Marie in that five year span. I’d called home diligently every Wednesday evening, inquiring how things were, hearing about what was new and things like that, but I hadn’t been home.
The day I got the call, I had just completed a major presentation to a client. It had gone well. I was at the top of my game that day and felt great. My cell phone rang, and when I answered my mother’s voice floated out to me in a disembodied kind of way.
“Can you come home Gulio? You’re father is sick,” she said.




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