Where You Are

Stories

De: Randy Kraft

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Is where you are the last stop or the next step?
The characters in these ten stories reflect on who they were when they were young, and who they might have been, as they grapple the setbacks and second chances of aging: displacement, longing, latent aspirations, lost lovers and friends, and unexpected desire, as they transition into late life.

A romantic resides at a remodeled chateau with brothers stymied in their plan to open an inn. As her first love lay dying, an editor revisits the betrayal that separated them. A violinist’s wish to be an impresario threatens her husband’s plans for their future. A retired researcher confronts her dead mother’s unlikely doppelganger. A history professor turns blogger to bemoan a failed romance. A widow finds herself attracted to the son her husband never knew. Old friends playing cards are dealt a surprise hand. A retired anthropologist seeks revenge for a friend ghosted on a first date. At her husband’s funeral, his wife confronts her ambivalence toward her marriage. A former nurse is forced to downsize to an immigrant community.