There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

She said, “Daddy thinks that all the world’s magic is almost evolved out.”I thought of Roebuck Lake, its swamps and sloughs and loblollies and breaks of cypress and cane, its sunken treetops and stobs and...

Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?”One child said, “The misuse of power is the root of all evil?”Alice said, “Well….”Another child...

Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn’t sure. He didn’t have anything to compare it to. He hadn’t even ever been out of the Delta.

In a little while they were kissing. In a little while longer, they made their slow sweet love.The iron bed sounded like a pine forest in an ice storm, like a switch track in a...

In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I gave her a cake of Lifebuoy soap. I gave her a...

When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things.

Uncle said, “If love would save him, wouldn’t no harm come to him.

Birds are waterproof.