Last Call

My Schliske 7.5 5/6 weight is featured in this video trailer for
my new collection of short stories, "Last Call": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPQwNLWxIY.
The title story features a father and son trying to reconnect along
the river.

Here's an excerpt:

It occurred to me my father might be too hobbled to wade in the swift
moving water, however compromised the river was by the press and heat
of dry years, by the demand for greener lawns in the desert. Perhaps
he was continuing the conversation in his own way. Fishing was an
exercise in hope, even when the rest of life wasn't. The next cast or
the next bend will produce the fish. The next trip. The hope was
what we knew when we looked at the map, tracing the thin blue vein
from its source in the lake until the river became something other
than itself further down the page. A single image represented an
entire landscape, both internal and external. The best map was
internal, the muscle memory that guided us to familiar spots, our home
water, the one we used to find ourselves. My father and I were still
learning how to read this map. Ours came without legends, and we were
still trying to figure out what the lines meant, what lay on the other
side of the mountains, the river.

Reviews of the book can be found on my website: www.blairoliver.com.

Best,
Blair