Robert Anthony Siegel is the author of two novels, All Will Be Revealed and All the Money in the World. He teaches writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Visit him at www.robertanthonysiegel.com.
END NOTES 1. The sting was not only in the thoughtless brevity of Captain FitzRoy’s note, but in the careless scrawl of the penmanship itself, which expressed his disdain for me and all like me—those who sail at the whim…
Dead men are more domineering than living ones, thought Verena Swann. They lecture and direct and give orders, while their widows sit around the circular table, nodding their heads and weeping and promising to stay true to them always. Verena…