Harper Lake

Harper Lake

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Aftermath

You know I ain't thought about it much, but Miss June if she's still breathing would be more'n ninety years old. She don't know it I guess but she cause a whole bunch of trouble for Harper County. When I was a teenager and even when I was a young married man, I took notice of some of the old womens at church giving the evil eye to the young pretty womens. And you know even after they found out they was wrong they just kept right on gossiping about other peoples. I guess they figured since there warn't now special words saying directly "Thou shalt not gossip" they was home free. And worse than that Harper lost some of its innocence. A lot of it. Since then we've had dozens of murders in the county and drugs are everywhere and mens is beating up on womens. Not to mention all the babies borned who will never know
who they daddy is. Yeah, I think Miss June was the start of all that. A feller said to me they have stuff like that going on everywhere and Miss June wadn't in all them places. And I said I reckon she was but her name just wadn't June.
Tomorrow: A Call from Jack

Hollis' funny names:
Ben Dunn is sunburned
Jason Dames is a womanizer

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