Whisper Town (2009)
“She dragged her two small sons out of the car along with her baby. With one hand she crushed her played-out cigarette against the oak tree that Jeb’s mentor, Reverend Gracie, had once planted in the front yard. With the other she settled her baby on her hip and herded the other two toward the house. If she read in Jeb’s face how testy she made him, she either did not have the sense to let on or did not care.
“I’m going into town to see the deputy about Myrtle,” he told her. It had taken all... day Wednesday to prepare his evening message.
What with performing a juggling act between reading and then pacifying Myrtle, he had not had the benefit of a spare moment to tend to the business of passing her off to more nurturing arms.
Myrtle had awakened again this morning at two, four, and again at six. He had paced with her on the front porch a solid hour waiting for Belinda’s old car to chug into the yard.
Jeb drove away without looking back at Belinda, who seated herself in the front porch rocker, her dress pulled down on one side.MoreLess
“I’m going into town to see the deputy about Myrtle,” he told her. It had taken all... day Wednesday to prepare his evening message.
What with performing a juggling act between reading and then pacifying Myrtle, he had not had the benefit of a spare moment to tend to the business of passing her off to more nurturing arms.
Myrtle had awakened again this morning at two, four, and again at six. He had paced with her on the front porch a solid hour waiting for Belinda’s old car to chug into the yard.
Jeb drove away without looking back at Belinda, who seated herself in the front porch rocker, her dress pulled down on one side.MoreLess
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