Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant t…

- Lewis Nordan

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

- Lewis Nordan

In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I gave her a cake of Lifebuoy soap. I gave …

- Lewis Nordan

There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.

- Lewis Nordan

The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, al…

- Lewis Nordan

A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different…

- Lewis Nordan