Daddy is a baseball fan. So is his
young daughter. But Daddy is also an assistant girl scout leader and his young
daughter doesn’t want to be in the girl scouts. The girl scouts act the way he
wishes his daughter would act. But while Daddy is at girl scout meetings, his
daughter stays home and watches the Houston Astros play professional baseball.
She also talks statistics like a baseball fan.
Daddy lost his wife several years ago
and he is now bringing up his daughter, Jessica. There is an unbridgeable gulf
between them. He wants to be a part-time girl scout leader and she wants to be
a professional sports fan.
She wants to go everywhere with her
daddy, but that can’t happen because he wants to be a part-time girl scout
leader, and she doesn’t want to be in the girl scouts.
The story of two lives existing
separately.
Rating: *** out of
*****.
Comment: The unusual relationship between father and
daughter. RayS.
About the Author:
“Born in 1941, Max Apple earned his Ph.D. at the university of Michigan in
19970. He has taught at several universities; presently he is teaching English
and creative writing at Rice University. His stories and essays have appeared I
several national magazines. His collections of short stories and his novel have
been highly praised. Phillip Lopate writers, ‘At his best, Max Apple is the
finest writer of short fiction in America.’ ”
Short Story International
#54. Ed. Sylvia Tankel. February 1986. Pp.146-156.
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