In the Night Wood

by Dale Bailey

my father used to say that you must focus on doing the next thing in troubled times. Just do the next thing, Mr. Hayden. It’s all you can do anyway.

“Okay, I’ll be happy, then.” As if you could choose. As if joy and sorrow didn’t select you at their whim.

Sherlock Holmes: when you’ve eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.