The Infirmary A poster in the medical center read, “Don’t Be A Butthead!” The poster showed a man with a cigarette filter for a head, crossed eyes, and a large mouth with smoke billowing out through his gapped teeth. Sam fought the urge to strike a match against it and spark up a Kent. Sam wasn’t […]
The Library Sam rapped on the door of the librarian’s office. “Enter,” a voice commanded. Sam obliged and found himself before the same woman who’d glowered at him for smoking on the quad. There were five feet to her, tops, carried mostly in her enormous bosom and bullfrog neck. She looked unnaturally white, with wet […]
Chapter 1 Springsteen, Bowie, Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac snaked out different windows. A rainbow-colored Frisbee sailed over the quad, hovered for a moment lost in the sun’s blaze, then wafted downward until it was dragged to earth in the jaws and slobber of a leaping Rottweiler. A gaggle of barefoot teenage boys with facial […]
On the drive back to the Old Home Place, Dr. Watkins sat in the back seat filling the car with talk while Cheryl stayed up front with Frank, her face angled into the stream of cool air pouring out of the air-conditioning vent. Whenever a fresh wave of nausea welled in her stomach, she held […]