When Fish Dream

Twenty some-odd years earlier Kyle Gunther left the small Texas town of Grenhart as the only person to play any sport at a major university, an admired and envied star quarterback, the town hero, carrying the expectations and hopes of the entire town. He returns in the middle of the night, driving a filthy beat-up and broken ancient station wagon, knocking and smoking, stuffed with all he owns, including his paintings, the only thing that has sustained him these last decades. Arriving too late for the funerals of his last living relatives, he is even more broken and beat than the station wagon he drives, and bears little resemblance to the boy who left. Finally in the home of his youth he is faced with rebuilding his life, ignoring the voices in his head, and overcoming a minute in his life so long ago as to be pre-memory, a minute he cannot remember but one that altered the course of his entire life.