Some of these men wanted to attend church and others wanted to find a local girl to take to the dance hall built on stilts out over Lake Pinchona. These soldiers were eagerly taken in by Perdido families, given massive plates of fish on Saturday night, hams and racks of ribs on Sunday after churc...
And why was it, Jack wondered, that whenever something like this happened, he’d always had a little too much to drink? The sheer momentum of having gotten to their feet after having sat so long at the table carried Jack and Susan past Rodolfo and Libby. But before they’d g...
He put down his foot. He wouldn’t have Scotty and Zelda in his home. He suggested that Susan open a window and throw them out and let the winds take care of them. On the whole, Susan agreed that the dogs deserved such treatment, but she found herself arguing with Harmon. S...
Jack’s uncle had remarried recently, a lady from the South—that region of the country that breeds ladies who are the most mercenary creatures on earth. Especially the widowed variety, with offspring from the previous marriage. And this particular widow had three sons, each more dissolute than the...
