Fischer leaned back in his chair, then picked up his coffee and took a sip. “I mean, I told him, remember? Anyone with European ancestry is very likely to be descended from everyone who lived in Europe in the thirteenth century who left descendants. If he can’t put two and two together, I’m not going be the one to burst his bubble.”
Maggie’s eyes glittered behind her round eyeglasses. “Perhaps, given Mister Ault’s personality, it’s best if he doesn’t know.”
Fischer gave her a wry smile. “It puts a new twist on that song from back in the nineteen forties, do you know it? ‘I’m My Own Grandpa.’”
“I am not an aficionado of twentieth century novelty songs, Fischer.”
“No,” Fischer said. “Somehow, I don’t expect you are.”
About the Author
Gordon Bonnet has been writing fiction for decades. Encouraged when his story Crazy Bird Bends His Beak won critical acclaim in Mrs. Moore’s 1st grade class at Central Elementary School in St. Albans, West Virginia, he embarked on a long love affair with the written word.
His interest in the paranormal goes back almost that far, although it has always been tempered by Gordon’s scientific training. This has led to a strange duality; his work as a skeptic and debunker on the popular blog Skeptophilia, while simultaneously writing paranormal and speculative novels, novellas, and short stories. He blogs daily, but is never without a piece of fiction in progress—driven to continue, as he puts it, “because I want to find out how the story ends.”
Gordon currently lives in upstate New York with his wife and two dogs.
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