Metolius Blue

METOLIUS BLUEJohn Harrington is dead-or not. Either way Terri White a middle-aged geologist and nature girl is suspicious about the phone call that informed her of her exs demise. Even though she can see underground into the deep past and even across the barrier to the world of the dead she feels oddly blind when it comes to facts about her ex. Metolius Blue. follows Terri on a journey across Nevadas notorious Highway 50 peppered with defunct mining towns through northern California and the coast of Oregon trailed by the menacing presence of her ex. Her deceased friend Dave OMalley rides with her on the road trip and provides an ear for her stories and flashbacks about John the farm boy reluctant Vietnam vet and bisexual wild child of the sixties. Along the way she tracks down Johns brother acquires her dead husbands ashes learns of Johns suicide attempt on the McKenzie River and retells another one years later. As she struggles to sort facts from habitual and extravagant lies she finds herself dogged by nightmares and sympathetic symptoms of her dead mates PTSD. Terri tries to dispose of Johns ashes on the banks of the Metolius River which precipitates a final encounter with her ex. Throughout the road trip Terri taps her deep connection to land as a means to heal.