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Duck on the Rock and a Night of War Beginnings
A 23 year old narrator recalls a chilling childhood incident along the Huntington River in Vermont during Prohibition. The memory centers on two drunken old men playing Duck On The Rock with a dead man nearby, a grotesque game that exposes the impersonal cruelty of humans. The piece interweaves the narrator’s looming World War II departure, fear, and the haunting image of the dead man and the marble eye, exploring themes of fear, memory, and humanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanksville
Vermont
New England
Frank
Thurston
Delbert