Night Swimming (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Pete Fromm
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1990's
- Setting: Pocatello, Idaho
- Principal Characters: Joe, Jenny, Mom
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Twentieth century, West, U.S., Fear, Accidents, Death or dying, Fantasy, Working class, 1990’s, Hospices, Swimming or swimmers, Alzheimer’s disease, Idaho
- Locales: Idaho
The Story
Joe, the narrator, relates how his mother was found up in the mountains frozen to death a week after she escaped the nursing home where she was staying. Joe tries to imagine what she was doing up there, perhaps fantasizing that she was skinny-dipping, taking her clothes off in front of some boy for the first time. Joe's fantasy about what his mother was doing in the mountains is based on a story she told him when he was just a child. She was swimming at night, when down deep in the blackness of the water, something touched her and frightened her, but she then realized...
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