The Ghostwriter’s Wife
The second book of The Ghostwriter’s Series, as with The Involuntary Ghostwriter, consists of intertwining narrative threads. One continues that of The Words, while the other, as the title suggests, tells the story of ANNIE FRY, the Wife of Jonathon Fry, the Involuntary Ghostwriter. Stumbling upon her husband’s computer, which he’d left open again, Annie decides Jon must intend for her to read what had kept him so absorbed and off kilter the past year. What she will later entitle “The Words” impacts Annie in ways she could never have imagined, leading her not only to look more kindly and empathetically upon her husband but also to experience an awakening and reexamination of her life. She takes charge of Jon’s blog, editing what he has written with his blessing, and has it published as a book. She later reluctantly agrees to append the subtitle, An Autobiography, at the publisher’s request. But they never speak of it other than as simply “The Words.”
The Words continue the narrative of the future Creator and His Wife. With Her, newly minted degrees in hand, finding a position at a medical research lab. She frustratingly steals what few hours She can for her own research, while impatiently awaiting the freedom to pursue what She Her dreams, no matter how far-fetched, foolish, or ill-conceived, without hiding or seeking permission, which She knows She’ll never receive.
Her Husband, he future Creator, forms a ‘Start Up,’ within a few short years, producing innovations that will change the world, with the unintended consequence of him becoming the wealthiest man in the world. But wealth was never a goal in and of itself, its pursuit having the sole intent of buying His Wife a lab of Her own as He’s promised, freeing Her to pursue The Fountain of Youth – words They would never dare say out loud.
In Their rare free time, They practice Their ‘Favorite Thing’ as often as possible, discovering Wigs-And-Things, and Naked-Hide-And-Seek, running through an old Victorian mansion They’ve purchased. This, before the basement fills with shaven-headed, legal, if barely, teenage geniuses who assist the Creator in creating all these world-changing innovations, although their orgies in the attic force the relocation of the company to some place other than the home of the Creator and His Wife.
And perhaps, His Wife does discover The Fountain of Youth, all Their plans a success, all Their dreams come true, but at what cost? Forever is a very long time.
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