Trina would help out during Jude’s daughter’s recovery from surgery and give moral support, since Opal’s recovery was expected to be temporary, really part of an overall decline. On the ride from Oakland to Panther Point, Opal slept in her infant car seat between Jude and Trina. The car seat stil...
Hauk. He hadn’t ever paid much attention to himself. How could he get under the skin? He shed flakes. He’d lost a lung to tuberculosis after the war, a few teeth. This last was just a flap, a scrim. But he would be different without it. He stood in the WC and inspected himself, took himself in hi...