Something Rich and StrangeShe was less of what she had been, the blue rubbed from her eyes, flesh freed from the chandelier of bone. He touched what once had been a hand. The river whispered to him th...
Spend a long time alone, especially if you're someone who's never been that social to begin with, and you find yourself craving solitude.
Stewart unfolded the oilcloth that kept his Bible dry and began reading. Ross reached into his pocket and brought out his tobacco pouch. He removed his rolling papers and found them sodden as Snipes’...
Superstitions are just coincidence or ignorance.
The lift of her heart she'd felt on the outcrop she now felt again, and it wasn't just love. She'd felt love before, known its depths when her mother died.This was something rarer. Happiness, Laurel t...
The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind....
The world is ripe, and we'll pluck it like an apple from a tree.
The worst thing the nineteen sixties did to this country was introduce drugs to rednecks,
Then one morning she’d begun to feel her sorrow easing, like something jagged that had cut into her so long it had finally dulled its edges, worn itself down. That same day Rachel couldn’t remember wh...
What about you, Snipes? Dunbar asked. You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?Snipes pondered the question a few moments before speaking.They's many a man of scien...
What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first, the smell of the soap her mother had bathed with, the color of the dress she’d worn to ch...
What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less...
When deep summer comes and the dog star raises with the morning sun, the land can scab up and a man watch his spring crop wrinkle brown like something on fire. It's the season snakes go blind. Their e...
You Men notice so little Pemberton, Physical strength is your genders sole advantage - Serena
You are not quite ready yet, though. For the next six months, practice until your arms ache and your lips bleed. The suffering will be good for you. A slight smile crossed the conductor's face. If you...
You cut up your feet pretty good, but nothing deep enough to need stitches. That was almost a mile walk and you sick as him, and barefoot to boot. I don’t know how you did it. You must love that child...
You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.
You men notice so little, Pemberton. Physical strength is your gender's sole advantage.
All the while remembering what it had felt like when the world you knew had up and vanished, and you needed to find something to bring that world back, and you weren’t sure that you could.
Petrichord: the sound of water sliding over smooth stone.
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