Shifty’s Boys (Mick Hardin #2)

by Chris Offutt

He decided to try television, but it was all sex and zombies, serial killers and sad cops. The comedies weren’t funny.

The temporal lobe on the right side of the brain stored memory. When someone lied, they often looked left, to the creative part of the brain.

All three had the same cowlick on the left, two more on the right, and a whorl on the crown as if an entire herd had licked their heads.

“That boy’s a dam missing a river.”