“And All Our Yesterdays…” and Nine Other Stories
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She mailed his Christmas presents early and wandered around the house. Darkness was engulfing the northern prairies as the winter solstice approached. Even after it passed, the slightly lengthening daylight was imperceptible.
Amy listened to all of Harvey’s regular broadcasts and to his three specials. She cried.
Her presents from Harvey came three days late—two sweaters and some perfume from Saks Fifth Avenue, along with a note saying he didn’t know when he could come home.
On New Year’s Eve Amy listened to Guy Lombardo on the radio and went to bed. She woke up an hour later in that dreadful dark. She closed her eyes and wondered if Uncle Harvey had seen the dark, too.
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About the Book
The stories in "All Our Yesterdays..." and Nine Other Stories continue to explore the lives of the Cockburn family and other characters in and around the fictional town of Menninger, North Dakota, first created in the novel The Song Is Ended and continued in the novel The Dark Between The Stars and the short stories in Meatball Birds and Seven Other Stories. While the events and the characters found in the ten stories exist in rural and small town settings, the themes explored have a universal appeal.
About the Author
Kenneth C. Gardner, Jr., was born in New Rockford, ND, and was raised on the drift prairies in the central part of that state. He is a graduate of New Rockford High School and Minot State University, and he received a Masters degree in History from the University of North Dakota. He was a teacher for forty-seven years: Kenmare (ND) High School, 1966-1967, and Drayton (ND) High School, 1967-2013. He and his wife Carol raised three children--Kathy, Kenny, and Jeff--and each has gone on to a successful career. Kathy and her husband Brian presented Ken and Carol with their first grandchild, Olivia Grace, in 2014. He is the author of a non-fiction book, Echoes of Distant School Bells: A History of the Drayton Public School, in two volumes (1994, 1999); two novels, The Song Is Ended (iUniverse, 2011) and The Dark Between The Stars (iUniverse, 2012); and a collection of short stories, Meatball Birds and Seven Other Stories (iUniverse, 2013). Ken and Carol reside in Drayton, ND.