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Beneath the Eye of God
The first time Granny Davis dragged Tompall to Sacred Harp practice he thought that they were going to give him a stringed instrument and teach him how to pluck out notes to Amazing Grace. As it turned out, there weren’t any instruments at all. Or even especially holy people since the preacher didn’t attend. Just a bunch of ordinary folks belting out church songs he’d never heard.
By Adam Dvorak 3 years ago in Fiction
Lucky Day
Arlo knew that a man had to make his own luck in this world. Not the kind of bootstrap luck folks talked about as they ground their fingers into nubs, scraping out a meager life. But the real stuff. The kind that strikes like a lightning bolt and sends you from the outhouse to the penthouse.
By Adam Dvorak 3 years ago in Fiction
Bullfighter
Late afternoon sunlight tumbled through the dirty motel window, spilling gold at the old clown’s feet. Without opening his eyes, he felt for the cigarettes on the nightstand. The first wasn’t too bad so he had another before hauling himself from the bed. His ribs and hip screamed in protest as he staggered to the bathroom, barely making it to the bowl before retching. Gus wasn’t surprised to see blood in his vomit or urine. Bad Larry had done him pretty good the night before, resulting in a powerful ache in his kidneys. And for as long as he could remember, he’d begun nearly every day by emptying his stomach of what remained of the previous evening’s sins.
By Adam Dvorak 3 years ago in Fiction
Raw Deal
“What’s in the trunk?” Rex couldn’t have told you which of the fifty states was largest by area. His first guess would have been Nebraska. There is no drive in America that drags out the way I-80 does when you’re heading east on the prairie. It’s nothing but telephone poles and cornfields. The further east you go, the more it all looks the same. Like you’re driving in one of those old movies where they have that shot of the characters through the windshield and the background is all the same thing on a loop and the miles stretch out into the horizon further than they have any right to.
By Adam Dvorak 3 years ago in Fiction