Confederates In The Attic (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.—AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil’s Dictionary I’m late for Western Civ. A blue exam notebook lies on my desk. Everyone else is already taking the test. I open the blue book. A question about Greece swims before my eyes. “What’s wrong?” the student next to me asks. “Didn’t you study?” The motel alarm jolted me awake. I lay staring at the digital red 4:00 winking from beside the bed, wondering where I was. Corinth. Corinth, Mississippi. Corinthian columns. Western Civ. An all-night omelet shop cast a sallow glow across the motel parking lot. It looked like a place Edward Hopper might have gone to sketch a solitary diner. Except that the restaurant was packed. I wedged onto a stool beside a man with “Jerry” stitched on his work shirt. He drank black coffee and blew perfect smoke rings. I asked him why the place was so busy at 4 A.M. “Busy? Shit.
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