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When Carly finishes, she throws the bone in the sink, wipes her fingers on the rag, and says soft-like, "Mama, don't jump all over me. I be gone by morning," and heads upstairs to her room, and I hear the door close. She won't say bout that belly up against her dress. Won't say bout the muddy mark on her cheek or knot on her forehead at the edge of her hair.
Otis Blue don't do that. Gotta be somebody else. Otis got a tender spot for Carly, and he loves her like a blind fool, though he's twelve years older. I never seen a man pu
Excerpted from If the Creek Don't Rise by Leah Weiss. Copyright © 2017 by Leah Weiss. Excerpted by permission of Sourcebooks. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
My Darling Boy by John Dufresne
The story of of a man whose son collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic netherworld of southern Florida.
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