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His face behind the windshield was sour and froglike; it looked like it had a shout closed up in it, it looked like one of those closet doors in gangster pictures where there is somebody tied to a chair behind it with a towel in his mouth.
The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor
Generations of our family have lived and weakened here. Our name is revered and cursed, as it probably should be. That’s all right. The grudge of money and the unyielding myth of the wealthy go hand in hand. An ancestor founded the town. Our great-grandfather built the mill. Our father leaped into its furious machinery one rainy summer night. And our mother vanished just days before his suicide. Legend and language form their own religion here in Kingdom Come, Potts County.
A Choir of Ill Children
Tom Piccirilli
Metrodorus of Chios (fourth century B.C.) wrote that “to consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.”
The Apostasy That Wasn't
Rod Bennett
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