Robert Goolrick

Heading Out to Wonderful

by Robert Goolrick

It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village nestled in the Valley of Virginia. All...

The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

by Robert Goolrick

It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal.

For one little boy, however,...

A Reliable Wife

by Robert Goolrick

Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when...

The Algonquin Reader: Spring 2012

by Kris D'Agostino & Robert Goolrick

Read between the lines and get behind the stories with Algonquin's finest fiction writers in the Spring 2012 Algonquin Reader, featuring essays and excerpts from Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac by Kris D'Agostino,...

Heading Out to Wonderful

by Robert Goolrick

Let me tell you something, son. When youre young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand-new penny, but before you get to wonderful youre going to have to pass through all right....