At 68, Margaret Ellis has everything — a paid-off house in Dayton, Ohio, a 600 sq ft glass garden house her late husband built, and 100 rounds a day to walk inside it.

She has everything except her son.

Her only son Daniel lives 2,400 miles away in San Diego, California, after marriage. He calls every Sunday for 11 minutes. Sometimes 11 minutes and 4 seconds. She writes those extra 4 seconds in her diary.

She came after marriage to America in 1989 with two suitcases and a red sari. She became Margaret at the DMV. She raised a son, buried a husband, learned to fix a flooded garden house at 2 AM in her nightgown, and learned to teach for time pass, not money.

People say she seems rich. She is rich — in rooms no one sleeps in, in time no one wants, in a huge garden within her house to walk.

This is a 100% fictional story inspired by thousands of mothers at 65+ who live alone after their children move to California after marriage. A story of a porch light that stays on, a ticket to California with code THOMAS, and a mother who walks 100 rounds a day as prayer.

For every son in California and every mother in Ohio.

A moving, beautiful, long fictional novel by Ahmer Anis.

100% FICTION — No real persons, no real data — All characters invented.

At 65+, The House Still Whispers

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