Daniel Powell
ASIN: B00CJD1S16
Publisher: Distillations Press
Pages: 16
In a world that has moved on, three elderly survivors gird themselves against the cold, a link to the past sitting quietly in a crabpot on the back workbench. As Dutch Jennings begins to tell the story of all that has been lost, a simple, horrifying plan begins to coalesce.Perhaps he can still find her. Perhaps the boy in the cage represents the long way home...This short story (4600 words) originally appeared in the collection The Silver Coast and Other Stories.