Their father dies when they are ten years old. They think they see his ghost everywhere, for a while. As teenagers, they drift apart, she falling pregnant senior year. But when he reaches middle age, the age his father was when he died, he thinks about calling her. About the Author Dan Chaon’s stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize. His collection Among the Missing was a National Book Award nominee; his most recent collection, Stay Awake, was a finalist for the Story Prize. He lives in Cleveland.
