BOOTS A Bad Crossing

Published 2006
Pages: 200

This episode of the human comedy entwines The Battle of the
Atlantic with the battle of marriage as two young folk share
love at first sight and spend the rest of their lives wondering
what they got into.
The story in the present takes place in the last week of June, 1998
when 74 year old Brenda takes Boots to the hospital for a new hip, and
inadvertently lets a huge family skeleton out of the closet. This sets both people
re-examining their entire lives; Boots with the help of morphine pad
attachment; Brenda with the help of Boots' blackberry wine.
The two people tip-toe the twin paths of self-destruction and salvation
until the paths all merge at the end of the day.
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