The Ugly Truth
Jill Orr
"Southerners will go to great lengths to avoid speaking ill of the dead, no matter how much they hated a person’s guts while they were alive."
"Southerners will go to great lengths to avoid speaking ill of the dead, no matter how much they hated a person’s guts while they were alive."
"As Crys walked, all she could see were surreal shapes of trees and bushes and white images of impala and other animals that she couldn’t identify."
"For the rest of the week Cash drove beet truck ’til two a.m."
"As the sun rises, I walk across the street toward the second row home on the block, five up from where Lauren Branch lives with her two roommates."
"'You’re not going to let him get away with that, are you?' asks Beth, aghast."
"Standing in the shower at six a.m., trying to wake up as the hot water sluices down her skin, Helena is struck with an intense sensation of having lived this exact moment before."
"The jury box is now full, five women including C-2, and two men, F-17 and the twitchy alternate with the hectic buzz cut who doesn’t pay attention when the judge explains what a voir dire is."
"'What curse?' Remi asked as Renee led her toward the villa."
"We did not make good time, for traffic was heavy and sections of the streets remained flooded with last evening’s torrential downpour."
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