Blind Luck
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“Not that I know of.”
Jack inspected the photo. “This isn’t the old cottage.”
“No, it isn’t. But it’s a long way from here.”
He began to pack his dad’s belongings, and it occurred to him that he was his dad’s payoff. After sixty years of hustling, calculating odds, and playing the systems, the man could finally have whatever he wanted. Ten million dollars. Dave didn’t know what money meant to his dad any more, but he knew that he could buy him the freedom to do whatever he wanted with the years he had left, and that peace of mind made the whole journey make sense.
Acknowledgements
My thanks to Matthew Stone for placing the book with DarkStar Fiction, for your rare insight and invaluable notes. To Benjamin Gilbert for reading everything I’ve ever written long before it was worth reading, and for making all of it better. Christopher Sandy for your passion for knowledge and attention to detail; Mark Adriaans for your irreverence and Matthew Deslippe for your understanding of character. Thank you to the encyclopedia of music, Steve Dalrymple, for giving the book its rhythm. My respect to Simon Gilbert for making being smart cool as a kid, and to Eddie and Debbie Gilbert for introducing me to the arts. To Skye Bjarnason for our late night literary discussions. My appreciation and thanks to my editor Allister Thomson for your passion and precision; to Sylvia McConnell for your support of the project and for your guidance during the process; and to Emma Dolan for designing a groovy cover.
Scott Carter was born in Toronto and raised in the Beach neighbourhood. He has worked in the book publishing industry and is now a high school English teacher.
Scott is also a screenwriter who has worked on numerous feature films and short films with various companies, including his own Sad But True Entertainment, founded in 2007.
He lives in Toronto’s Riverdale district with his family.