Literature

That this was happening in Chamberlain, in Chamberlain, for God’s sake, where he drank iced tea on his mother’s sun porch and refereed PAL basketball and made one last cruise…

Some of the fights puffed out. There was a dazzling flash somewhere as a live power cord hit a puddle of water. There were dull thumps in her mind as…

Q. What is your address?A. I got a room over the pool hall. That’s where I work. I mop the floors, vacuum the tables, work on the machines-pinball machines, you…

‘They will,’ she said. ‘I set it up.’ it won’t even be close. Why do they keep applauding? What’s going on in there?”Don’t ask me, babe. The school song suddenly…

She had done it; that was enough; she was satisfied.(maybe he’ll fall in love with her) She looked up as if someone had spoken from the hallway, a startled smile…

Tommy suggested they stop at the Kelly Fruit after and grab a root beer and a burger. All the other kids would be going to Westover or Lewiston, and they…

Billy offered her a ride home from school one afternoon a week later and she accepted.He was what the other kids called a white-soxer or a machine-shop Chuck. Yet something…

She put the dress on for the first time on the morning of May 27, in her room. She had bought a special brassiere to go with it, which gave…

‘Playing match”Something like that.’ ‘And Tommy went along with it?’ This was the part that most fascinated her. ‘Yea,’ Sue said, and did not elaborate. After a pause: ‘I suppose…

She lay on her bed, looking at the ceiling, sweating.’Carrie! Supper!’ ‘Thank you, (i am not afraid) Momma.’ She got up and fixed her hair with a dark-blue headband. Then…

‘Wait Just wait. Let me talk. You want me to ask Carrie White to the Spring Ball. Okay, I got that. But there’s a couple of things I don’t understand.’`Name…

‘Ewen, four years,’ Grayle overrode him. ‘Graduation slated June seventy-nine; next month. Tested I.Q. of a hundred and forty. Eighty-three average. Nonetheless, I see she’s been accepted at Oberlin. I’d…

She would not break this time.But of course she did break. It took six hours but she broke, weeping and calling Momma to open the door and let her out….

(or only hopeful)that she wasn’t that weak, not that liable to fall docilely into the complacent expectations of parents, friends, and even herself. But now there was this shower thing,…

“‘No, I won’t,” she said. “Momma says good girls don’t.” She looked strange for a little girl, half sad and half self-righteous.’I could hardly believe it, and the first thing…

‘I’m sure she’ll be all right,’ she said. ‘Carrie only has to go over to Carlin Street. The fresh air will do her good.’Morton gave the girl the yellow slip….

News item from the Westover (Me.) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966:RAIN OF STONES REPORTED It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear…

29″YOU GUYS READY?” Dale asks. “Aw, man, I don’t know,” Doc says. This isn’t the fifth time he’s said it, maybe not even the fifteenth. He’s pale, almost hyperventilating. The…

28BUT AT FIRST there is nothing. The four of them get out and stand in front of Dale’s cruiser, looking for all the world like men posing for the kind…

27WHEN JACK AND Dale step into the air-conditioned cool, the Sand Bar is empty except for three people. Beezer and Doc are at the bar, with soft drinks in front…