Sublime

But

Arabella's child killing mine was a judgement—the right slaying the wrong.

blarzy,

Townsfolk would talk about him for years, about how he went back out on his own to hunt the bandits down that very same afternoon, barely taking the time to swallow some cold hash and trade in his old plug for a fresh one at Jim Flannery’s livery, talking gibberish about having an important appointment at some crossroads somewhere.

our burglar problem,” he said.

acerbic

cricket on a stem, the veined branches

the first story that, as he later put it, “rang his cherries” was Donald Barthelme’s “The Balloon.”