Grim Tales (17 page)

He slept and heard in his sleep God breathing and woke to find it was his child, who was breathing in the room with him and not God. Or perhaps it was the opposite: it was his child, whom he heard in sleep and God, who was breathing there with him when he woke. It was impossible to say which case was true. Then the breathing stopped.

Norman Lock
is the author of numerous works of fiction, as well as stage and radio plays, including
The House of Correction
(Broadway Play Publishing Co.),
A History of the Imagination
(FC2),
Land of the Snowmen
(Calamari Press, Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Publishers-Japan),
The Long Rowing Unto Morning
(Ravenna Press),
The King of Sweden
(Ravenna Press) and, most recently,
Shadowplay
(Ellipsis Press). He is a recipient of the Aga Kahn Prize given by
The Paris Review
, prose fellowships awarded by both the New Jersey and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and, in 2011, a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, with his wife, Helen.

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