
Crustaceans
It is December 22nd, a foot of snow has fallen, and Paul is heading out for a small coastal resort on his son Euan''s sixth birthday. Shall I tell you a story? he says and recalls the boy''s birth, his first words and steps, all the stuff of forgetting, of any boy''s life...
But nothing, Paul has decided, should ever be lost or discarded or buried, as it was in his own childhood. And so he confides...
It is December 22nd, a foot of snow has fallen, and Paul is heading out for a small coastal resort on his son Euan''s sixth birthday. Shall I tell you a story? he says and recalls the boy''s birth, his first words and steps, all the stuff of forgetting, of any boy''s life...
But nothing, Paul has decided, should ever be lost or discarded or buried, as it was in his own childhood. And so he confides...
