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She Taught Me Everything
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The Sad Cancer Saloon: A Short Story
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At the Crossroads: A Short Story
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Hi readers:
Though I hoped to put together a collection, it turns out that my short stories fall into two categories that don't mix: domestic stories about loss and family and love versus more fantastic stories about ghosts, curses, love, and magic.
I recently published one of the latter: Pinky Johnson goes to a crossroads in deepest Mississippi on a mission to save the soul of legendary bluesman R Read more of this blog post »
Though I hoped to put together a collection, it turns out that my short stories fall into two categories that don't mix: domestic stories about loss and family and love versus more fantastic stories about ghosts, curses, love, and magic.
I recently published one of the latter: Pinky Johnson goes to a crossroads in deepest Mississippi on a mission to save the soul of legendary bluesman R Read more of this blog post »
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| Set in a graveyard, peopled by the remnants of folks who do not admit their own death, this story includes boatloads of contemporaneous commentary about Lincoln (yes, that Lincoln) and the death of his son (Willie, who is among the denizens of the gr ...more | |
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| It's short, it's strange: Did Robert Johnson sell his soul at a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta back in the 1920s? Is young Pinky Johnson (no relation) crazy to think he can change the course of history? ...more | |
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“My sister taught me everything I knew back then. She taught me how to tie my shoes and she made sure I finished my homework. When she shook me awake in the middle of the night and said, “It’s time to get out of here,” I got up and went because it was how she helped me get ready for the world.”
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“My sister taught me everything I knew back then. She taught me how to tie my shoes and she made sure I finished my homework. When she shook me awake in the middle of the night and said, "It's time to get out of here," I got up and went because it was how she helped me get ready for the world.”
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“When the telephone rang in the middle of the night, I knew.
The Tennessee state trooper on the other end said, "Your sister's been hurt pretty bad."
In my haste to get to Nashville I didn't ask a single question.
There had been a car accident. What else did I need to know?
I'd been dreading a call like that my whole life.”
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The Tennessee state trooper on the other end said, "Your sister's been hurt pretty bad."
In my haste to get to Nashville I didn't ask a single question.
There had been a car accident. What else did I need to know?
I'd been dreading a call like that my whole life.”
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“I wanted to come, and if I hadn’t, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave and irreplaceable they were.”
― Doomsday Book
― Doomsday Book
“He was born a politician.
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.”
― Life After Life
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.”
― Life After Life
“Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.”
― My One Hundred Adventures
― My One Hundred Adventures
“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”
― Like Life: Stories
― Like Life: Stories
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