He once bragged to me that with the single push of a button, he could lower his boat from the dock behind his house, that he could be out on the water in less than five minutes.
Annette Pearson
Annette Pearson is a former college writing instructor living in Austin, Texas, and on Galveston Island. She is currently working on a memoir about ambiguous loss, displacement, and finding one’s way home, titled This Is Where I’ll Be. Excerpts from that have been shortlisted for the 2022 Writers League of Texas Manuscript Contest and the Bellingham Review’s Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, and appear in Kaleidoscoped and SmokeLong.