If You Want Me to Stay (2005)
“My daddy sometimes when he was between off and on used to talk to us from that in-between zone. I wanted to believe the things he told us and I almost could because his eyes had not yet turned into plate-glass windows you see yourself in walking down the sidewalk. Once my daddy told us that he happened to be in Madison, Wisconsin, the day that Otis Redding’s plane crashed in a nearby lake and soon as word reached him he hopped in his truck and drove out there and hired some old boy fishing in a... fourteen-foot Ouachita with a twenty-horse Evinrude to motor him out to where the plane disappeared beneath the icy water. He didn’t even bother putting on any frogman suit because, he said, time was of the essence. He’s the one dove down and pulled Otis from the wreckage of wrong plane, wrong time. The other passengers, still belted in the seats, swayed in the murky water like they were grooving to a slow jam on the radio. The plane had lost part of its engine but the cabin was intact except some loose sheet music bobbing about like fish.MoreLess
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