His Early 20th Century Grand Hotel Fire

Adapted from B. Elwin Sherman's "In Watermelon Salt -- The Lost Richard Brautigan," this short-short story is the meaning of life and a doughball all rolled into one. Here is an old man, lost in time and running out of it, just finding his way in the dark. We are future-oriented creatures, and when the future becomes limited, we must necessarily go ahead into what's gone before.