Route Delivery by Ralph Bland

John Clark Hayes, age 52, failed novelist, eclectic collector, former teacher and retail clerk, and at last stop route delivery salesman for Tasty Snacks on Saint Simons Island, Georgia, doesn’t much and never has been a card-carrying member of the world around him. He’s a loner, a dropout, and a divorced father of three whose children have yet to be impressed by his fatherly skills. His oldest son David categorizes him as distant, his daughter Linda considers him altogether AWOL from her life, and his youngest son Franklin thinks he is weird beyond words and is deathly afraid it may be hereditary. When John Clark unexpectedly dies on his route of gunshot wounds from a botched robbery, he suddenly in his new form as someone not living anymore begins to question and learn that the world he’s inhabited for so long is going to continue to go on without him, so he decides to revisit all the aspects of his life, his idyllic romance, his ex-wife, his children and pets, his former stops on hi