We walked slowly to Audie Murphy Hill.
We all, if we’re lucky, have someone in our lives…
There were so many telephone calls over all the years—calls…
Of course it would be on a bus.
I went to the airport in Chicago, picked up my…
The dinner was probably our thousandth meal together, give or…
Allen gave me a ride back to my hotel by…
You’re saying that was the room?”
If you’d had a pocket calculator—not that anyone had pocket…
Allen had gone back up to canton—there was a trial…
I went back to Chicago, and the first thing I…
One call I received from him, in the days right…
I told jack what time i’d be arriving in Columbus…
You know what I liked best about the bookstore?” he…
One morning I arrived at his house and I could…
I don’t know if it was our talk about business…
The phone rang later in the evening than was customary…
He was upbeat and his voice was full of life…
Allen was at the bar when I got there, smoking…
Less accomplished singers than Mr. Lennon weren’t quite as adept…
If Jack’s dad ever owned a home-movie camera, I didn’t…
When I arrived in Columbus he was in the hospital.
He was sitting in front of a computer the next…
Time began to feel compressed.
I kept having these thoughts of all the years that…
The calls became shorter in duration.
Late that day, I changed my flight from the next…