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    The Best Sort of Day

    By Stan Washburn

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    The near future. The country is in turmoil, and abortion is illegal. Pregnant, 16-year-old Kelsey appeals to police sergeant Joy Banta for help. Joy knows Kelsey only slightly, and the sentence for assisting is harsh, but she agrees. The simple solutions don’t work out. A bungled abortion procedure leaves Kelsey with a dangerous infection. Treating it without reporting its cause is a criminal act. And the secret can’t be kept for longpeople guess, or are on the point of guessing. Kelsey’s father, Captain Downing—Joy’s difficult boss—gradually figures out what is going on. Whichever way he turns he faces imprisonment, the ruin of his career, and the loss of his daughter, while Joy is drawn deeper and deeper into the muddle. A poignant story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStan Washburn
    Release dateAug 27, 2015
    ISBN9781310068850
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    The Best Sort of Day
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    Stan Washburn

    Stan Washburn is a painter, printmaker, and, more recently, a writer. His art is in the collections of the Achenbach Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Portland Art Museum, among others. His work is low-concept—images of things he sees or wishes he could see around him—and inclines to the whimsical and mildly absurd. His writing, a more recent vocation, is similarly based on experience and sympathetic observation.

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