Excerpts – cereal after sex

On the green and misty outskirts of Cincinnati, a man named Saul Revenge pauses in his driveway and looks at… Read more.

The Shakes (Excerpt 4)

Momma and Eddie said goodbye to Magnolia and me in the driveway at the home of the Beasleys. I’m going… Read more.

My name is Magnolia Shakes, and I was born on July 28, 1970. Exactly eight years later my daddy died… Read more.

One day Eddie and my mom sat me and my sister down in the living room after supper to tell… Read more.

Nobody really knows why my daddy did what he did. Some say it was a sickness of the heart. Others… Read more.

Sitting in the dry dirt above the desert floor, with legs crossed, the founder of the Church of Everlasting Super… Read more.

Gary Glasscack boasted that he had the largest collection of pornography in all of Giza, New Mexico. He bragged about… Read more.

Giza, New Mexico, population 53,219, sat in a narrow stretch of hot land running from the prosperous north to the… Read more.

Uncas’ car was a brown-colored old Saab that’s seen better days. There was a metallic squeal when Wilburn opened the… Read more.

He stepped inside. It smelled like a newly built house dipped in medicine. Read more.

At the crossroads of the metal moon and spilled-milk stars and beneath the exit to the Earth and its sun,… Read more.