Eastern Shore: Metaphor in a Hat

By Mark A. Nobles

A son travels halfway across the country to the deathbed of his estranged father. He thought the hardest part of the journey would be driving from Baltimore to the southern tip of the Eastern Shore in a blinding blizzard. He was mistaken.

"Eastern Shore" was first published in The Panther City Review 2017.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark A. Nobles
• Release date: Jul 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386738480

Mark A. Nobles

Mark A. Nobles is a Fort Worth based writer and filmmaker. His work has appeared in Sleeping Panther Review, Crimson Streets, Cleaver Magazine, and other publications. He has produced and/or directed three feature documentaries and several short, experimental films. He can be found on Facebook @ Flyin Shoes Films.

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Eastern Shore

Metaphor in a Hat

Mark A. Nobles

Published by Mark A. Nobles, 2018.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

EASTERN SHORE

First edition. July 1, 2018.

Copyright © 2018 Mark A. Nobles.

ISBN: 978-1386738480

Written by Mark A. Nobles.

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Eastern Shore

By Mark A. Nobles

THE DESK WAS LITTERED with a myriad of no longer sticky, sticky notes, scribbled up scraps of paper and several pocket sized composition notebooks in varying conditions of tatter. A pearl white coffee mug splotched with dribs of coffee sat on a cork coaster, which sat on a scrawled over desk calendar still showing October of last year.

I worked away on the upcoming festival with an open excel grid of the schedule, two press releases and an open email to volunteers all fighting for room on the computer screen. My hands clickity-clacked across the keyboard. The cell phone rang.

It was early on a Sunday morning and my phone never rang on the weekend unless one of the girls was in