This painterly short-story, devoid of words, is incredibly rich in emotion. Scott Morse tells a tale in two parts, a tale of two guitar players, one jilted and lonely in the big-city, the other widowed and living by the sea. Their two lives are terribly different, but they are both in pain, and can find little solace in the world. But their lives do intertwine, if only briefly, and in the anguish of one lies the hope of the other. ( )