Short story: A natural man, by Graeme Lay

Short story: A natural man, by Graeme Lay

Dear Stephanie, Grant Galligan died yesterday in Auckland Hospital. From cardiac arrest. He was forty-two. Jacqueline I stared at the email. Behind my eyes, the news flashed like a lightning bolt. Grant Galligan, dead? It couldn’t be. Grant was fit, and strong. A swimmer, a surfer, a diver.  He had been a member of a writing class I had tutored two years ago. The group of twelve – mostly women – had got on well together. Unusually, there were no…