Status Updates From Joe by Larry Brown (2014-03...

“A gnarled and shaking hand spread out over the rough warm face of the rock, trying to hold its secret there deep in the snakey woods.”

“He whipped the bolt straight across his body without looking and it landed hard on the forehead of the black man, who was in the act of passing the bottle, and knocked him whimpering into the grass with his eyes full of blood.”😱

“A drunk man tells no lies.”