Pete and Alice in Maine: A Novel

by Caitlin Shetterly

I’ve told you this before—Maine is a lawless country; every local’s got a gun in the back of their pickup. It’s Texas with Bean boots.”

What does Joan of Arc say in Shaw’s play? “To shut me from the light of the sky and the sight of the fields and flowers; to chain my feet so that I can never again ride with the soldiers nor climb the hills; to make me breathe foul damp darkness . . . without these things I cannot live.”

“At some point, everything dies. What we need to do now, as a world, is take our grief and try to save what we can.

Forgiveness is a fleeting thing. Here in the darkness of night, gone in the clear blue sky of morning. I seem to be constantly holding this scale in my hand bearing the two ideas: move on and love; stay angry and leave.