Lenz snorts. My mistake.
McCrae was the kind of southerner who had only left the parish of his birth to serve his country in wartime or to carry bulls across the state for mating purposes.
Men fantasize about wanton women, but when they meet one, they’re paralyzed by fear.
Mom covers the wrought-iron patio table with newspaper, and Dad dumps the steaming crawfish
Of course you have. I’m a man, and I respond to all that you are. But I also feel things that a father feels for a daughter. Mainly, I feel very protective of you. And my first duty is to protect you...
There have been times I would have given anything for such faith, for the belief that divine justice exists somewhere in the universe. Facing Sarah’s death without it was an existential baptism of fir...
Came across a letter by T. S. Eliot, who I had always vaguely assumed was English. To my surprise, I discovered that Eliot had grown up along the same river I had, in St. Louis, and to a friend he wro...
Have crystal meth over in Natchez? Of course we do. I’m not interested in the meth. I’m interested in the men who make and sell it. Walker’s eyes narrow, then go wide with comprehension. And what exac...
He committed such a heinous act, would have owned up to it and taken his punishment like a man, as the archaic phrase goes. That may be a quaint and sexist notion these days, but some of what is best...
He know how to work the computers, navigate our intranet? Would he know the user names or passwords of the reporters? No. But if Nick didn’t delete the files, then it could be anybody. How the hell do...
Her? I wonder. Tom? I say, taking advantage of
Masked man beats her with the bottle, which doesn’t break, thank God. But then he rips off her panties and rapes her with it. Both holes. Serious trauma, but mostly in the back.
Named False Witness the fourth-best legal thriller ever written. After what? Anatomy of a Murder , The Caine Mutiny , and Presumed Innocent.
Path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.
Some of what she said actually offended me. Caitlin truly was a liberal when she arrived in Natchez, and she routinely chastised me for being too conservative. But now it seems that her liberal convic...
A glacier consumes whole forests by inches.
And the black politicians…my God. I’ve watched black aldermen do patently illegal things and then brag about it. They don’t care whether something is legal or not. White politicians abused the system...
Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.
As I turned toward it, a premonitory wave of heat flashed across my neck and shoulders, and I felt the dry itch of the past rubbing against the present.
Every son eventually learns his daddy has feet of clay. You just happen to have a father of singular rectitude, so it took until you were forty-five. That doesn’t make it any less painful.
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