He had meant to park in town but had driven through the sheer activity of cars and people with an alienated numbness and had gone on to the beach car park. The school was out on lunch and there were kids everywhere in the small town and it was all too much for him. He sat there staring out over t...
Both men wore gloves. They were thin leather gloves and they looked somehow feminine on the big man. It was early and gray fog came in from the port and messed the light about. It was dismal. The big man still looked rough as hell. They sat in the back of the café and could smell the kitchen thro...
‘Bill brought the cow,’ she says, and they try to talk. __ Bill had seen the cow and stopped the tractor and gone to help the cow. He’d always had a quiet way with animals. He saw she was heavy with calf and helped her down through the hedge where she was stuck on the corr...