A lonesome dog howled
before daybreak, and it was Sunday. Sermons and fried chicken, back seat car rides to visit dying relatives, lasting a summer’s worth of Saturdays. What stagnated the Sabbath, making each tick of the mantle clock dull the seconds while you chanted the names of passing cars hoping one might pull to the side of the road? Mercury, Cadillac, Chevy, Ford. Dodge.
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Laura Treacy BentleyLaura Treacy Bentley is a novelist and poet from Huntington, West Virginia. She is the author of a new chapbook/artbook, Looking for Ireland: An Irish Appalachian Pilgrimage (2017), a psychological thriller set in Ireland, The Silver Tattoo (2013), a short story prequel, Night Terrors (2015), and a poetry collection, Lake Effect (2006). Laura has been widely published in the United States and Ireland. She was featured on A Prairie Home Companion, Poetry Daily, O Magazine, read her poetry with Ray Bradbury in 2003, and signed her books with Nora Roberts in 2017. lauratreacybentley.com |