fiction

The first, the very first time, I became aware of my power over men, I was only 12 years old.

"You're doing a remarkable job with these people Father--though you must find it terribly lonely here in the winter?"

Few residents of Rigby recall left-handed Thurston's first year of schooling, when he learned to print right-handed under a teacher's sticks and shouts.

In her younger days, when she was bright-eyed and russet-haired and passably pretty, she had supposed that by the time you got old, like, say, fifty, you could count on a fair amount of freedom from both financial and family worries.

My Uncle Maxie, the playboy, comes over every night for dinner, these days, sitting with us in the back booth where we always eat.

When Bull walking down Canje Road everyone watching him twice.

The first thing you notice about her is her lipstick

"And I," he said to himself, "And I must admit that the prairie seas are calling out to me."

I remember the hottest day at the stream.

When the alarm rang I rolled over slowly and glanced out the window at the lightening sky mouthed dull red.