Life Change — Mark Safranko

In the days after the bomb dropped, we went through all kinds of hell...I demanded to know everything. How did it start? How long had it been going on? How many times had they done it? What was she going to do about him? She wouldnÕt give me a straight answer. We argued. When nobody was around, I hollered. I threatened. I begged. ItÕs crazy, what you do when the roof caves in.... --- Lee Grenetts was a cop in Hatberg, Pennsylvania. After a thiefÕs bullet buzzes past his right ear, he realises he wants a quiet life. A hotel in the Adirondack Mountains seems idyllic. Then the bomb drops as his wife, Ellen, starts acting strangely. And Lee starts to accept a bullet in the head isnÕt so bad after all.... 'Life Change' explores the feeling of being outside... the inability to conform being matched by the ferocious desire to survive, regardless of the odds.... Once again, SaFranko is fascinated by Òa sense of someone in trouble, mostly with himself. ThatÕs what truly interests me.Ó