His memory supplied the rest, and the machine gave it form. She was a proofreader at the ad agency where he was the night typesetter. He’d work from midnight to dawn, setting wedding announcements, car dealership flyers, lost dog posters. She’d stay late, marking up galleys with a red pencil. One night, she wandered into the typesetting room. She saw the Filmotype Lucky on his bench.
He smiled. Then he began to unplug the cords. He had a machine to pack, a train to catch, and a very old, very beautiful story to finish setting—this time, not alone. filmotype lucky
He clipped the strip of paper to the drying line with wooden clothespins, alongside decades of other strips—headlines for lost causes, captions for forgotten photos, love letters never mailed. His memory supplied the rest, and the machine gave it form
Indiana 1987. Charged with a murder he can’t remember, in the midst of heroin withdrawal, Pike Ables must make a decision now: Go to jail, or flee the country! His only hope, his younger brother Jack, a soon-to-be father and respected psychiatrist. With no food, drugs or weapons, the brothers embark on a journey that will test the meaning of love, family, forgiveness and life or death. Sometimes things aren’t what they seem as the brothers must navigate out of the darkness, into the light and escape before they are caught and someone else dies….
