Shot in the Heart - Mikal Gilmore
This book is dedicated to my brother, Frank Gilmore, Jr.
He endured much to help me tell this story.
There’s something the dead are keeping back.
—ROBERT FROST
THE DREAM
I HAVE DREAMED A TERRIBLE DREAM.
In this dream, it is always night. We are in my father’s house—an old charred-brown, 1950s-era home. Shingled, two-story, and weather-worn, it is located on the far outskirts of a dead-end American town, pinioned between the night-lights and smoking chimneys of towering indust ...