Good Marriage and Other Stories

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Ernest Haycox. Good Marriage and Other Stories

Good Marriage and Other Stories

Table of Contents

1. Call This Land Home

2. No Time for Dreams

3. Cry Deep, Cry Still

4. Quarter Section on Dullknife Creek

5. Custom of the Country

6. Good Marriage

7. Tavern at Powell's Ferry

8. Smoky in the West

9. A Day in Town

THE END

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Ernest Haycox

Published by Good Press, 2022

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Homeward-bound, the wind came at them face on. Young Tom bent against it, hearing his father's half-shouted words, "It ought to be a month or more before the baby's due. But we're alone out here, and accidents come along. We've got to expect those things. No sensible man watches his feet hit ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next."

They came around a bend of the creek and heard a massive cannon crack of sound in the hills above them, and the ripping fall of a tree; its jarring collision with the earth ran out to them. They pressed on, John Mercy's pace quickening as though a new thought disturbed him. High in the air was an echo like the crying of a bird, lasting only a moment and afterward shredded apart by the storm, but it rose again thinner and wilder and became a woman's voice screaming.

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