Robert Gottschlich's Blog - Posts Tagged "semi-fiction"

“Peter is an unhappy man. Underneath the dementia that surges and falls back like some rapacious, ransacking horde and the diabetes that eats at his extremities like termites at wood, he is aging ungracefully and the sparks of discontent fly off him at all times of the day. Mornings, however, are his worst time.”

Excerpt From: Gottschlich, Robert. “Ten Acres in Malibu.”

“I didn’t know it then. Perhaps if I'd known better, if I had cared others who were dying, I might have had a shiver of recognition. Often, the best times in a demented patient's life, the clearest moments, the most encouraging signs of rehabilitation cruelly come just before a turn for the worse. But this turn is still ahead of us and I tuck him into bed thinking how fortunate I am to be caring for such a sweet, carefree old guy.”