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he found his son lying on the porch bleeding to death with his private parts tucked under his lapel.
COSMOS MARINER, DESTINATION UNKNOWN.
a carefully applied arc of purple eye shadow that blazed like a lurid sunset on his left eyelid.
“I don’t do drag or anything sick like that.
Jack the One-eyed Jill’—not
He pretends he’s not wearing makeup, and I pretend I don’t know he’s ignored my wishes.
Is this all of Savannah?
They were always separated by at least a hundred yards.
Mr. Bouhan used to give him Chivas Regal scotch liquor to drink.
It was in Savannah that Serena plunged headlong into middle age.
Sometimes, to relieve the boredom, Luther anesthetized ordinary house flies and glued lengths of thread to their backs.
On occasion, Luther walked through downtown Savannah holding a dozen or more threads in his hand, each a different color. Some people walked dogs; Luther walked flies. Now and then, when he visited friends, he took a few of the flies with him and let them loose in the living room.
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A disappointed lover blew a hole in my bedroom wall. I’m still too upset to talk about it.”
This lady is annoying
“My! I had a cousin who went there once.”
God hole
‘Like painted kites the days and nights went flying by.
Joe’s landlords asked him to vacate the premises at once, not so much because of the fire but because Joe had never paid them any rent.
and in that sexual limbo of hers she was a disturbing presence, one that challenged all the natural responses.
“Yayyiss, honey! When the drums roll, the bugle beads floooowwww! Look at them beads, baby! Flawless!”
Well, honey, come to find out most of them really wanted me to dress ’em up in panty hose and walk all over ’em in high-heeled shoes!
‘Well, whatever you are, I like you. I can’t get you off my mind, and as long as we can be friends, I want to see you again.’
‘Thanks from the bottom of our interracial baby’s dead little heart!’”
I tried to tell him: I’m a woman. Treat me that way, it’s the way I treat myself. I want a man who wants a woman, not a man who wants a man.”
a tall, elegant black.
and now you tell us you’re Hangin’ out with a nigger drag queen.
Adler’s intention was to get houses out of the hands of the absentee slumlords and convert the Victorian district into a racially and economically diverse neighborhood.
“He had all those little faggots hanging the swastika out there and moving it from window to window.”
Adler wants to help blacks but not gays. Strange how inclusion always seems to be exclusive.
A fair number of men and women were looking forward to having their turn with him.
He spoke without a hint of sarcasm or irony.
“Did you hear that? Jim overheard me talking about Peter’s fiancée, and it’s simply too mortifying, I was saying …”
Why do rich people talk like idiots?
off the cars of the latecomers, just to let them know they were late.”
Peter knew what to expect, so the moment Harry flung the door open, he ducked. Harry fired two shots with his thirty-eight and hit both marines between the eyes.”
“Well, as we all know, Doc, juries in Savannah don’t seem to mind seeing homosexuals get killed. I mean, you can stomp a homosexual to death in our community, and that doesn’t seem to make a difference.”
hermaphrodites.”
As soon as I had said it, I thought of a dozen reasons why not, but it was too late.
He referred to a pair of oil portraits as his ‘ancestors-by-purchase,’
Or maybe we could get your buddy Luther Driggers to poison ’em. Or your pal Jim Williams to shoot ’em … in self-defense, of course.”
“I’ve had to come out of retirement to draft it—had
“He should have taken Danny’s body out west, pulled his teeth, dissolved them in nitric acid, peeled off his skin, and fed it to the crabs.”
“The only crime that boy ever committed was turnin’ twenty.”
but from the witness stand she’ll be in a position to make direct eye contact with the D.A., the judge, and the members of the jury. This will enable her to put a curse on every one of them.
that it’s a custom-made Dunhill jacket, and that the buttons are eighteen-carat Georgia gold.”
Alright sir.
“That don’t matter,” she says, letting go of his ear. “You got the boy angry again. Now we gotta calm him down.”
Williams had been placed in a cell for homosexuals and the mentally unstable.
What is this language?
