Short-Story Month 2012: Day 28, Speaking of Courage by Tim O'Brien

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"The town seemed remote somehow. Sally was married and Max was drowned and his father was at home watching baseball on national TV."


Today's selection is a war story that follows the character Norman Bowker who, having returned from war, finds himself driving circles around a lake in his father's truck, and in his memory.

"Speaking of Courage" 

by Tim O'Brien

(1990)