The good always die young. Ten-year-old Roy Brown hears this after his sixteen-year-old brother Billy, the Eagle's star basketball player, is killed in a wreck before the annual rival game against the Tigers. Alone in the kitchen before dawn the morning of Billy's funeral, Roy remembers that day.
The good always die young. Ten-year-old Roy Brown hears this after his sixteen-year-old brother Billy, the Eagle's star basketball player, is killed i...
Society has buried those branded outcast in unmarked graves, at cross-roads, and outside the cemetery fence. Crossbones Graveyard is a famous, or infamous, example. IN MEMORY OF is my version of this cruel custom. It's the story of an unmarked grave outside the cemetery fence closer to Mobile than Montgomery, wedged between woods and water, in a place nobody goes. According to folklore, Thomas John Sutton, 14, is buried under. Thomas loves Esther, but she isn't accepted in Canaan because of her bastard birth. After discovering the secret of his birth, Thomas fears he'll be treated the same....
Society has buried those branded outcast in unmarked graves, at cross-roads, and outside the cemetery fence. Crossbones Graveyard is a famous, or infa...
Mildred doesn't think she's holier-than-thou; she knows it. Her Second Blessing confirms it. She explains, "A Second Blessing is more than just doing right. It's the knowledge that you are pure. It's not thinking of yourself better than others, though you are, or showing it, though you do, since it's as natural as breathing. A Second Blessing is a gift shared with prophets of old and yet to come. It's not just having my name written in the Book of Life, but engraved." She believes this year's revival will be a disaster. Francis Paul Day, an ex-junkie, is the speaker. Plus he has the same...
Mildred doesn't think she's holier-than-thou; she knows it. Her Second Blessing confirms it. She explains, "A Second Blessing is more than just doing ...
Ten souvenir saucers trace a married couple's life. Emma died from a heart attack. The day after her funeral, once the children are gone, Ed is in the house alone. Pushed back in his recliner. Waiting for the clock to strike nine so he can go upstairs to bed. Picks up the newspaper and reads Emma's obituary. Studies the souvenir saucers on the living room wall. They got the first one, "Lover's Leap from Lookout Mountain in Tennessee," on their honeymoon over forty-seven years ago. First time either of us saw mountains. ED WEAVER is a simple love story in 20th century Alabama.
Ten souvenir saucers trace a married couple's life. Emma died from a heart attack. The day after her funeral, once the children are gone, Ed is in the...
