Dear Mr. President: A Short Story

As a young lifeguard, Ronald Reagan saved 77 people from drowning in the Rock River in Dixon, Illinois, according to his biographers. And, during the late 1980’s, an FBI agent did visit a neighbor of the author’s who had been sending (by then) President Reagan cryptic collages, to see if he intended to harm the leader of the free world. What happened during that interrogation, nobody knows for sure. The author’s neighbor died some years ago, leaving to the author his collages, a cane with a rubber horn, a closet full of secrets, and the germ of this fictional story.