small-town

If looks could kill, she__ be a dead woman.

She was halfway through the revolving door when the thought hit her; she was the one who had seen Junior and Luther fighting before the banquet. She was the one had told Detective Sullivan. Overcome with guilt, she grabbed Ted__ arm and faced him. __t__ because of me,_ she said. __unior was arrested because of me!

If I was going to spend the next day in jail for obstruction of justice, I'd better get a good nights sleep.

I__l save a spot for you on the hood of my truck.

It's one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you're boozing with Yankee writers in Martha's Vineyard or being chased by the bulls in Pamplona. It's something else to go home and visit with the folks in Reed's drugstore on the square and actually listen to them. The reason you can't go home again is not because the down-home folks are mad at you--they're not, don't flatter yourself, they couldn't care less--but because once you're in orbit and you return to Reed's drugstore on the square, you can stand no more than fifteen minutes of the conversation before you head for the woods, head for the liquor store, or head back to Martha's Vineyard, where at least you can put a tolerable and saving distance between you and home. Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.

He was both her hero and enemy. She was his best student and biggest regret.

What happens when you pray for an angel and get a vampire instead? R E Mullins

Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn__ the only one in town who__ come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.