Mad Season (1996)
“There was the trucker had run out of gas at two in the morning and come pounding on his door. The high school kids, drunk and run the car into the broad side of the barn. And he and Belle up most of the night trying to calm the cows.
The problem was they’d built the damned road too close to the house, and tricky the way the shoulder sloped down into the limestone ditch. How many he’d hauled out of that ditch he couldn’t count. Big rain, and the mud slid off the road, taking the cars with it. Ju...st yesterday a woman with red fingernails, car too big for the road, wanting more than help—wanting to buy his land, turn it into a hundred houses. Mother of God! “I’m not selling,” he told Belle. “My grandpapa he didn’t break his back on this land for nothing. I don’t part with one goddamn foot of it, I’m telling you.”
“They offered ten thousand dollars an acre over to Benoit’s,” Belle said, “and they took it.”
But he said, “I got over half that right here, don’t I?”MoreLess
The problem was they’d built the damned road too close to the house, and tricky the way the shoulder sloped down into the limestone ditch. How many he’d hauled out of that ditch he couldn’t count. Big rain, and the mud slid off the road, taking the cars with it. Ju...st yesterday a woman with red fingernails, car too big for the road, wanting more than help—wanting to buy his land, turn it into a hundred houses. Mother of God! “I’m not selling,” he told Belle. “My grandpapa he didn’t break his back on this land for nothing. I don’t part with one goddamn foot of it, I’m telling you.”
“They offered ten thousand dollars an acre over to Benoit’s,” Belle said, “and they took it.”
But he said, “I got over half that right here, don’t I?”MoreLess
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