Good news greets Quibble’s return: his wife has conceived. There will be children in the house. His wife will be happily overwrought. He will register as a father, sit on the side of the tavern reserved for men with responsibilities. A position to be filled, respect to be harvested. He wonders who the biological progenitor might be. His wife has had her eyes pinned to the car salesman at the lot beside the grocery store. Quibble’s spurious trip was planned to give them cover. No child of Quibble should be conceived hastily in the comfortless back of an unsold automobile.
Ken Poyner has been publishing for 48 years, married for 45 years, retired for seven years.
He writes to defeat the numbers. Find his eight available books at www.kpoyner.com or any
number of book vending sites. Latest work in “Rune Bear”, “Analog”, “Tiny Molecules”,
“Neologism”.
