He straightened his spine, raised his head, and extended his gun arm
towards me in a slow, vertical arc. I saw then what he was, and stood
still in front of him, for he was here on business. He was a small,
serious, stone-eyed angel of mercy.
Janet is a skeptic, a journalist; Maxine revels in New Age fantasies;
and Ray, a drifter, is a born-again Christian. The common ground is the
house they share. But their fragile domestic balance is about to explode
amid the smashing of ukeleles, the unexpected ascension of an angel and
a sudden shower of jonquils.