All Winter Long the Girls Smoked Tobacco Leaves
| ALL WINTER LONG THE GIRLS SMOKED TOBACCO LEAVES a short story published in Confrontation and Denver Quarterly |
VIEW PDF AND READ THE STORY "Up in the hills the talk was of the men all disappeared and presumed dead. I didn't like the talk up in the hills: it was all about the men who used to be there but weren't any more. It was talk about how maybe they fell down into the bottom of the valley, or how maybe it was that the valley rose up into the hills at night and swallowed them whole. Just the men. Gone in the cold damp of night, warm wedge of empty stink in their beds. I didn't like the talk up in the hills: it was all about the sick, the mad and the left-behind women, and the why-hows and the what-fors of it." |
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