Fuchsia-blooming crape myrtle trees, which are tended
Not far away lay the big cannons that had held Ulysses Grant at bay for fifty siege days while the citizens of the town ate rat flesh and clung to their long-cherished beliefs. How many had died in th...
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. —Jane Austen, Persuasion, paraphr.
Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for...
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay atten...
Psychiatric evaluation. Roberts glanced at Jack Moran. If you will agree to
Fervent, will not cure the afflicted. Nor
Between us. That night I prayed like a man trying to polish coal
Behind them.
When we reach the intersection with Homochitto Street, I turn right, into town, and soon we’re passing Dunleith, the antebellum mansion that I always say makes Tara from Gone with the Wind look like a...
There’s no meaning to be found in tragedy. Only in our response to it.
Sheriff Dennis lifts an Ole Miss coffee mug off the desk and spits tobacco juice into it. I like spitting on the Rebels, he says distractedly.
Her? I wonder. Tom? I say, taking advantage of
Chopper’s
You yourself are guilty of a crime when you do not punish crime.
William Faulkner ever said wasn’t written in one of his novels, but spoken during an interview in Paris: The past is never dead; it’s not even past.
The hour of justice does not strike on the dials of this world.
People say time be like a river. That’s bullshit. You can swim upstream and downstream in a river. Can you do that with time? Hell, no. Time ain’t no river. Time is a big fucking razor blade scraping...
Comparing that shyster to a snake would be a slander to the serpent.
Because death is the end, and if a man doesn’t speak before it silences him, then the things he holds closest die with him.