She quietly lifted Ralph's jacket off the back of the settee where he slept and wrapped herself in it, then went onto the front porch to sit on the steps and sip her tea. The porch looked very different without any railing. Ralph had removed all traces of Immy's handy-woman project. It was a neat...
Immy was at the kitchen table with her folders. Hortense had gotten up to get herself another glass of iced sweet tea during a commercial, so she let Louise in. “I’ve never properly thanked y’all for Amy JoBeth’s shower,” Louise gushed. “That was a bright spot in my poor girl’s life.” Immy watche...
The inside door was open and a television was blaring in the front room. Her cabin, like her mother’s, was more of a house than a cabin, with several separate rooms. I could see through the screen into a living room with a kitchen beyond that. Two doors led to what were most likely bedrooms. &nbs...
She had tried to return Baxter’s truck keys, but he didn’t answer the door. She had left the keys on the left front tire. Everyone in Saltlick did that. Immy didn’t know if people did it in other places. It had felt good to get out of her undercover clothes and back to her real life. Since her mo...
—The Neandertals, Erik Trinkaus and Pat Shipman, p. 418 Sannum Straight Hair could not sleep. Enga Dancing Flower and Ung Strong Arm had been banished three suns ago. The more he dwelt on it, the more he was sure Enga had been telling the truth. She would not defile the Holy Cave. And he knew she...
—In Search of the Neanderthals by Christopher Stringer and Clive Gamble, p. 217 “Many anthropologists came to believe that Neandertals could have spoken any modern human language, whatever their accent may have been.” —The Neandertals: Of Skeletons, Scientists, and Scandal by Erik Trinkaus and Pa...