Esther stories

Initials etched on a dining-room table, Lockeport, Nova Scotia --

Thumbs --

In the walls --

Early November --

Pile of clothes --

Papa Gino's --

On a bridge over the Homochitto --

Cousin Tuck's --

Toe Poes --

Shoe story --

Thursday night at the gopher hole, April 1992 --

Country Road G --

At the Motel Rainbow --

Sitting Theodore --

At Horseneck Beach --

Sarah --

Walt Kaplan reads Hiroshima, March 1947 --

Melba Kuperschmid returns --

Birth of a son-in-law --

At the Conrad Hilton --

Awnings, bedspreads, combed yarns --

High priest at the gates --

In the dark --

Atlantic City --

Providence --

Michigan City, Indiana --

The raft --

The house on Lunt Avenue --

Daughters --

My father in an elevator with Anita Fanska, August 1976 --

Seymour --

The moraine on the lake --

Esther stories --

The waters.