David L. Wrights

DAVID LANE WRIGHT was born in Bennington, Idaho, in 1929. Although he served in the United States Air Force most of his life, he was first and foremost a writer—a fact verified both by the numerous publications to his credit and the quantity of unpublished works he left behind when he died in 1967, at the age of thirty-eight. His poetry was published in such places as Golden Quill Anthology, National Anthology of Poetry, and Poetry Public Quarterly; his fiction in such places as The Humanist, Mutiny, Arizona Quarterly, and Best Articles and Short Stories; and his play Still the Mountain Wind was produced by Utah State University, the University of Minnesota, the Poet's Theatre of Cambridge, and Brigham Young University. His unpublished letters, poems, stories, journals and novels are housed in the Special Collections Library at Utah State University. This short story was submitted to DIALOGUE by his daughter, Charlotte M. Wright.