The Blind Man's Wife

The Blind Man's WifeWith the talk on the island that the astronomer and writer Willard DeWalt had lost his sight, no one asked him about his writing. Instead, people insisted on hearing a story. They were glad for the simplest thing of this gifted man, that he was alive, and were inspired by his stories, always uplifting, never about blindness. Yet there was a frown of unresolved crisis in DeWalt's features that made a crease of blame in his face, and the sour stillness in his house suggested th...