Status Updates From Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories

"But even a smart farmer did stupid things when he’d been poor too long."

14. Three A.M. and the Stars Were Out - 5⭐

“The habit of being alone was even harder to break, because solitude had its comforts.”

13. Night Hawks - 4⭐️

“As evening comes, more snags emerge, fewer lures. A whiskey bottle and another bait bucket, some cans that probably rolled and drifted into the pond’s deep center. Then I see the cinder block, with what looks like a withered arm draped over it.”😣

12. The Woman At The Pond - 4⭐️

"Easier for the victors than the vanquished to forgive, Pastor Boone knew."

11. The Dowry - 5⭐

“We don’t find our destiny, it finds us.”

10. The Magic Bus - 5⭐️

“Sheriff Hunnicut told me he used to wonder why he never saw any rats inside a meth house. I mean, filth all over the place you’d expect them. Then he realized the rats were smart enough to stay clear. Think about that.”


8. Those Who Are Dead Are Only Now Forgiven - 5⭐️

"You could look at Florida on a map and see that it drooped down from the rest of America like a limp peter. It was a wonder the founding fathers hadn’t just sawed the damn state off and let it drift away. A state where the most famous person went around pretending to be an eight-foot-tall mouse."😆

8. A sort Of Miracle - 5⭐

"All those different faces are inside me, not on the screen, and I can’t help thinking that if I remember every one, enough of Kerrie’s alive inside me to keep safe the part that isn’t."

7. Twenty-Six Days - 3⭐

“No man, not even a king, can buy off a McDonald.”

6. A Servant of History - 5⭐

“I told him if he got in the thick of it, look for them what hid behind the lines with fancy uniforms and plumes in their hats. Them’s the ones to shoot, I said, cause it’s them sons of bitches started this thing."

5. Where The Map Ends - 5⭐

“You got to ride this kind of luck out.”

4. Cherokee - 5 ⭐

“She 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 that it would not be long now.”

3. Something Rich and Strange - 5⭐️

"Think about what a man has to become to do such a thing, he told us, and then that man be back home a year before it felt wrong."

2. Nothing Gold Can Stay - 4⭐

“Crooked as bankers were, Sinkler should have realized how quickly they’d recognize him as one of their own. No, he’d not make that mistake again.”

1. The Trusty - 5 ⭐️