Peaceable kingdom

Amazing imagery from Jack Ketchum–He can phrase something so skillfully that I have to stop and laugh, or reread, or shiver.


1. Cowboys around a fire, pondering an unpleasant reality, from the story “Luck”:

They passed the bottle and moments passed silent and sullen as kicked dogs...

This is my long dark night of the soul?

His Gethsemane bored him.

The empty hangers in the big walk-in closet seemed ridiculous, poverty awaiting an abundance that would never occur again.