Kentucky Straight Quotes

“Time piles up like brush. You burn it in the fall and all you remember are the glowing cinders. I got ash heaps everywhere I look. -Old of the Moon”
― Chris Offutt, Kentucky Straight: Stories

“Vaughn nodded. Lije steaded himself and looked into the woods. "Never could abide no roof."
"Ours ain't the best," Vaughn said. "Leaks come spring."
Lije pointed at Venus faint above the distant ridge. "only roof-hole I ever did crave."
"Evening star ain't a hole."
"Then how's that light get through?”
― Chris Offutt, Kentucky Straight: Stories