Would-be Father

From the collection Gryphon, Charles Baxter's luminous story of caretaking under any circumstance.Burrage never thought he'd be the responsible one. When his brother and sister-in-law die in a car accident, he becomes caretaker to his young nephew, a fragile boy who wants to know what the future will be. Burrage begins writing the boy's horoscopestars, trains, and hide-and-seekuntil his predictions begin to fail, in a rowboat, in the middle of a lake.Charles Baxter is one of our finest short story writers, a modern master. ';The Would-be Father' is one of his first published short stories. An eBook short.