The Diviners
By Jim Leonard Jr.

The setting is Zion, Indiana in the early 1930's. Here, Ferris, a rural mechanic, talks to C.C. Showers, a former preacher who has given up the faith. He describes his now-dead wife, Sara.

FERRIS

You never had you no kids. Never had you a wife. Well, there's plenty a time. Used to be I didn't know nothin either. I mean, when I went to marry I didn't know a damn thing. I can tell you that now 'cause I'm older, you see, but at the time I thought I was a genius. Women or horses or cars or what have you. I's the first one to tell you what's what. You know how I asked her to marry? How I married the wife? I says, "I love you. I want you. Let's go." I didn't know the first thing about women.

I was crazy about her. Ain't a day that goes by I don't think a that woman. Lie to bed in the mornin', I think how she was. See that house, see the kids, you can't help but remember. I was head over heels in love... Never came to my mind I could lose her, I guess. You wake up one mornin' and she ain't there no more... but you still keep on lovin', you see? I mean, she made me so happy. She's my darlin', my Sara. And nothin' on earth gonna change it.

'Course, bein' a husband was a piece a damn cake compared to bein' a Daddy full time. I wasn't married a year and she gave me a daughter. I was just gettin' used to a wife.

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