As his grogginess slowly dispersed, the first thing he noticed was that his wife, Melanie, had neatly rolled herself up in all of the blankets and left him shivering with nothing but a sheet. The second thing that entered his consciousness was the ringing of the telephone, relentless and annoying...
His mother, Ada Fugate, had become pregnant when she was sixteen, and the thought of having her social life hampered by a swollen abdomen had made her hate Elton from the beginning. Had she known who Elton’s father was she might have tried to get him to marry her, but because she had made herself...
We did not know it then, but we conceived a child that night. We were much too concerned with other things to suspect it. I was busy fashioning Camille into a proper wife. It took another two months of rigorous drilling to separate the last wheat from the chaff. It is difficult to say how Camille...