In The Moon Of Red Ponies: A Novel - Plot & Excerpts
The Jocko Valley was still in shadow, the crest of the hills black-green against the light growing in the sky, the sound of the river loud on the rocks at the foot of the property. She and Johnny had slept with the windows open and the room was cold, and she wished he would come back to bed. In the kitchen she heard pans clanking on the stove and smelled coffee boiling and bacon frying in a skillet.She raised herself up on her hands and yawned. “Johnny?” she said.But there was no reply. She glanced down at his pillow, and in the indentation where his head had rested was a small blue-felt box. She picked it up and pried the top back on its spring. Inserted in a satin cushion was a gold ring with a tiny diamond mounted on it.“I was going to surprise you with some apple flapjacks,” he said from the doorway, an apron tied around his hips, a spatula in his hand.“Oh, it’s beautiful, Johnny,” she said.“There’s a Methodist minister up at St. Ignatius who says he’ll marry us any day we want to set it up.”“Let’s do it this week.
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