Fancy Gap A Novel – Zak Jones

When he’d asked which pharmacy she named the very one, the pill mill just as he’d hoped. He said he’d take her down there and drop her off at home if she’d like. She said that would be just wonderful, tired as she was. She noted how they were sonofabitches there and laughed but promised to say he was her grandson.

Her grandson often took her down there, she remarked, and no one seemed to give a damn who he was. — They pulled through the gate and Clyde passed the woman’s ID over to the guard and told him she had an appointment. “Need to see your ID too now, mister.” “Can I talk to you for a minute?” “Sure,” said the guard, and Clyde keyed off the Buick.

The woman didn’t protest at all. Now Clyde was telling the guard about his grandmother’s dementia, and the guard grew suspicious. “Okay then, will you let me talk to her?” “All right,” Clyde said with a shrug. The guard approached the vehicle, and despite its not being quite dusk he shone a light into the woman’s face and startled her.

She reared back as if he were attacking her and said “Clyde, Clyde!” which Clyde grimaced to hear, but he ran up and said softly, “It’s okay, Granny, it’s okay.” The guard let them pass through, apologizing for being tough on them and wishing them a good night. Clyde waited in the car after he pulled the woman’s walker from the back seat and set her up to head into the facility. It was agonizing watching her navigate the concrete ramp zigzagging up to the building.

The doors finally opened then closed behind her. And in a quarter hour she was hobbling back on out. She fell asleep on the drive to her retirement condo. He tried to wake her to some avail. “You’ve got to keep driving, Granny,” he urged. “Let’s go, let’s get you into the seat.” He got her out and gently ushered her to the driver’s side. She held on to the sides of the car throughout the rigmarole, shaking and wobbling.

Copyright © 2026 by Zak Jones All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, transmitted, or distributed in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.

Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada A division of Penguin Random House Canada 320 Front Street West, Suite 1400 Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3B6, Canada penguinrandomhouse.ca The authorized representative in the EU for product safety and compliance is Penguin Random House Ireland, Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street, Dublin D02 YH68, Ireland, https://eu- contact.penguin.ie Publisher’s note: This book is a work of fiction.

Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Fancy gap : a novel / Zak Jones. Names: Jones, Zak, author. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20240383125 | Canadiana (ebook) 20240383141 | ISBN 9780735249844 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780735249851 (EPUB) Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.

Classification: LCC PS8619.O543 F36 2025 | DDC C813/.6—dc23 Ebook ISBN 9780735249851 Cover and book design by Kelly Hill Interior image: (texture) © vejaa / Adobe Stock Cover images: (mountains) © Christian Gideon / Stocksy; (smoke) © Terry Schmidbauer / Getty a_prh_7.3_155047159_c0_r1 OceanofPDF.com Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Prologue Part I Grace Dalton Jane Messiah Grace Dalton Jane Messiah Grace Jane Grace Jane Dalton Jane Clyde Dalton Messiah Dalton Clyde Dalton Clyde Part II Dalton Messiah Dalton Messiah Clyde Dalton Messiah Part III Messiah Dalton Grace Messiah Dalton Grace Messiah Dalton Together Epilogue Acknowledgments OceanofPDF.com For Jake OceanofPDF.com But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

ezekiel 7:16 king james bible OceanofPDF.com PROLOGUE look at us now. Look at what man has done to himself. Look at what we gone and become. There’s a notion I want to dispel out there, where everyone’s just born good and dies saved. Some say, I suppose, that the Lord’s Word is something like that. But they haven’t quite seen what I’ve seen. All these miracles I have seen. All this despicability. Good people gone bad.

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