Thursday, 1:17 p.m.

by Michael Landweber

Overview

Duck is 17. He will never be 18. Tomorrow is his birthday. It will never be tomorrow. Time stopped at 1:17 p.m. on a beautiful Thursday afternoon in Washington, DC. Duck is the only person moving in a world where all other living beings have been frozen into statues in an endless diorama. Duck was already in limbo, having lost his mother to cancer and his father to mental illness. Now, faced with the unimaginable, he approaches his dilemma with the eye of an anthropologist and the heart of a teenager trying to do the right thing under the strangest of circumstances. Ultimately, he realizes that while he doesn't understand the boundaries between friendship and love, that uncertain territory may be the key to restarting the world.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158500121
Publisher:	Coffeetown Press
Publication date:	04/25/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	208
File size:	293 KB

About the Author

Michael Landweber lives and writes in Washington, DC. His short stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Gargoyle, Fourteen Hills, Fugue, Barrelhouse and American Literary Review. He is an Associate Editor at Potomac Review and a contributor for Pop Matters. His first novel, We, won a Bronze IndieFab Book of the Year Award in General Fiction and was a category finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards. To find Michael online, go to mikelandweber.com.