A Table Set for Time

What would you say if you were given one more evening with your parents?

After burying his mother and father at Arlington National Cemetery, sixty-six-year-old Jeff Voigt returns home hollowed by grief. When he lies down to rest, he awakens on the porch of his childhood home in Wilburton, Oklahoma. It is 1963. The air is warm. The radio hums inside. Supper is being prepared.

He has been given one impossible gift: a single evening with the family who shaped him.

Still an adult, carrying a lifetime of love, mistakes, and longing, Jeff steps back into the rhythms of a house long gone. His principled Air Force father. His quietly perceptive mother. His curious sister. And the small boy he once was-trusting, hopeful, unaware of the years ahead.

But time is fragile. Should he reveal what he knows? Should he protect them from future sorrow? Or is love best expressed by letting the past remain untouched?

As the evening unfolds, Jeff begins to understand that the most sacred moments are often the ones we overlook while living them.

A Table Set for Time is a moving short work of fiction about grief, gratitude, and the enduring bond between parents and children. Reflective, intimate, and quietly powerful, it invites readers to reconsider the ordinary evenings that shape an entire life.

Perfect for book clubs and anyone who has ever longed for one more conversation at the family table.