Jimmy’s Call Hot. So fucking hot. Hard to believe it’s planet Earth. Shit, maybe it isn’t. How can it be raining and this hot? Sommers is screaming at a kid. Farmer. Maybe fourteen. Frozen, staring at Sommers, his mouth wide open, too scared to drop the basket he’s holding. Sommers has his M16 in the […]
Dale The soccer field was ablaze with the lowering autumn sun. From the shadows amid a rise of white pines behind the bleachers, Dale watched the players dart and kick, their breath pluming in great misty clouds. Dale was particularly interested in this scrimmage because he’d hurled a few pinecones onto the field before practice. […]
An hour later, when Cheryl came down for dinner, she had redone her hair and makeup and slipped into a sleeveless black Marc Jacobs number she had worn only once before, at an Alpha Kappa Alpha cotillion the previous fall. The dress, with its shirred silk and its low scooped back, was a touch too […]
Frank’s grandfather, Dr. Nelson Watkins, sat slumped in a rocking chair at the far end of the shaded porch, listening politely as a bosomy older woman lectured the table on how, precisely, she was related to the young Buford couple who ran the hotel. “Sorry to interrupt,” Frank said, cutting in. “Grandpa, there’s somebody here […]