March 22, 2009
I am tired today and cheating. These are the first 82 words from my first, and only, novel.
Lucy stepped back and started reading from the bottom of the list.
Zimmerman led to Weiss and then to Walls. From the top Archer led to Arnold and then to Baeck, and about half way down there were two Ganglehoffs, followed by a Hegarty. But there was no Harris between Ganglehoff and Hegarty.
No Patrick Harris. No any Harris.
Surely there had to be some mistake?
A forty year old mistake or a more recent omission by a headstone sculptor she wondered.
Lucy stepped back and started reading from the bottom of the list.
Zimmerman led to Weiss and then to Walls. From the top Archer led to Arnold and then to Baeck, and about half way down there were two Ganglehoffs, followed by a Hegarty. But there was no Harris between Ganglehoff and Hegarty.
No Patrick Harris. No any Harris.
Surely there had to be some mistake?
A forty year old mistake or a more recent omission by a headstone sculptor she wondered.
