Larry Dablemont

The rain was steady now but with little wind, thank goodness. I was content to watch it from the dry shelter. I was in no hurry.

Dad said Saldy was as fine a man as he ever knew, and he would trust him with every penny the pool hall made in a week...

Charley and his wife were in their early sixties. Neither knew the young seventeen-year-old kid who stood there before them in ragged overal