--and the Angels Sang

Fiction. Jon Bernier returns to rural Alabama to tidy up family plots in a cemetery. Ruminations of his first love, a concert pianist, are shattered when he discovers her defaced memorial stone. Clandestine international pharmaceutical concerns, coupled with government illegalities, are unexpectedly revealed, offering Jon a possible reprise as he learns that broken links of lives have a chance to be re-connected.

The maestro and Beth left the stage. The applause called them back. Beth
received the customary bouquet of roses. Maestro again acknowledged in turn:
Beth, orchestra, and chorus. Beth whispered in his ear. He turned toward my area
and ...