THE STORY: DINK’S BLUES. When Dink comes to visit his friend Fish House Fats, he is already drunk, and it is very late. There at Fish’s home “establishment” Dink makes himself too much at home, and soon Fish realizes that Dink is talking to someone not in the room. Dink sinks slowly into a crushing remorse and reveals the belief that he killed the woman he loved in a car crash twenty years ago. She’s been coming to him lately, talking with him, calling him, and he knows it’s only a matter of time before he joins her. Fish, discovering a brotherly sensation he didn’t know he had, tries to keep Dink sane and at the house, feeling he’d do harm to himself if he left. After awhile, however, they both know Dink must face his demons alone, and willing to do so, Dink departs, leaving Fish to hope for the best for his friend and with the lesson to pay more attention to the love he finds at home.
Included in the collection
Moloch Blues.
