Ready for 25 shots in the belly with a long needle, I braced for the jab. Thanks to modern science, though, I only required one shot in each arm and one in each leg. Three more next week will do the trick. No rabies. Bring on the vampires. I was going to tell the nurses […]
On Sonny Drake’s first day dead, the power of his words banged around in my head like outlaw biker ghosts brawling inside the gas tank of his vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle. “Live Pagan, die Pagan,” he said matter-of-factly in our last conversation. The day after Sonny’s death, a month short of his 72nd birthday, I watched […]
Maybe I did kill those chickens the summer of 1970, wiping out about 50 of the little cluckers on a Perry County back road when I was young, wild and free-range. I launched my murder most fowl by making Sonny Drake and the other two guys in the van laugh so hard and so loud […]
Shortly after federal immigration agents arrested Higinio Mendez-Salazar I tried tracking his whereabouts. I quickly lost the man millions of Americans want to disappear. Nobody will help me locate him, not his former federal public defender, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Pike County jailers where ICE holds many undocumented immigrants or the U.S. Marshals […]
A little frazzled but still in control the young bearded guy in front of the oven ladled tomato sauce on the dough with the ease of a Renaissance artist layering red paint on a priceless fresco. Looking up he quickly explained. “I just got an order for 30 pizzas,” he said. “It’ll take me 20, […]
