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A translucent white banner with deckle edges reads “A Waiter Made of Glass: Stories and Poems.” A smaller similar banner shares the name of our author, Verlyn Flieger. The scene behind and between these banners has been painted of a charming old world downtown street at sundown. The sky is gold and salmon blending to a soft middle blue above. The street is clean, with tall buildings side-by-side. They look like businesses below with residences above. Warm indoor light streams out of rectangular windows and arched doorways which spills across the flagstone sidewalks and warmly colored street surface. A lovely spired building in the background suggests a stone church at the end of the street. No people, not pedestrian, nor shopkeeper, nor even a person peeping out of a window can be seen. At the center of this eerily quiet scene stands a wooden round pedestal table with four red upholstered spindle-legged chairs. The table is laid for four with triangularly-folded white napkins and a spoon at each place. Who is expected at this silent meal, and by whom? The artist’s signature, E. Austin, is written small in the bottom left corner.

A Waiter Made of Glass: Stories and Poems

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