One Dog Year: A Story from Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
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In this story from Kevin Moffett's dazzling new collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, an elderly, declining John D. Rockfeller waits in his wheelchair for an airshow to begin, pondering the tension between eking out every last moment of life and experiencing, for the first time in a long time, a moment of genuine adventure.
Kevin Moffett
Kevin Moffett's stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere, as well as in three editions of The Best American Short Stories. He is the winner of the Nelson Algren Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the 2010 National Magazine Award for the title story. He lives in Claremont, California.
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One Dog Year - Kevin Moffett
One Dog Year
A Story from Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events
Kevin Moffett
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One Dog Year
John D. Rockefeller is hungry. On the high dunes, with a nice open view of the ocean, he sits in a wheeled wicker chair, waiting for the airman to arrive. Next to him is Pica, his groom, and below him, a crowd of a few hundred has gathered on the hard-packed sand. The mood is high. Men stand with men and ladies with ladies. Children splash in the shallow water, chasing sandpipers and gulls.
Every so often the crowd grows silent in response to some distant clatter. First, it is a pair of low-slung race cars lurching toward the gathering on the hard sand. When a marching band comes through, the crowd lithely adjusts itself and forms a passageway.
John D watches the ten-man band marching down the beach. Bugles, cornets, drums: happy music, no doubt about it. But its sound is leashed to something easy and sad. Happiness approaching, overtaking, passing him by. John D is eighty-six years old.
Yesterday someone saw him up on the wing, a man is saying. Playing the fiddle. The plane was flying itself.
He sits beneath a diamond-shaped sunshade. His wig is pinned into a straw hat and he wears a collarless shirt, a loose vest made of Japanese paper, and trousers, the pockets filled with dimes. He is no longer