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A Fire in the Rain

A Fire in the Rain FICTION David Huddle DAVID SAWYERS WAS TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD. He and Judy had gotten married when he was nineteen and she was sixteen. They had boys, one and three years old. David had started working for the carbide plant three weeks after he'd gotten married. David was a Rosemary Sawyers, which for most of the people in the county suggested that he was not necessarily law-abiding or smart or wellmannered or hygienic or ambitious, but that he was probably hard-working, uncomplaining, accustomed to the deprivations that came with being poor, and fiercely loyal, especially when it came to family. Within David's lifetime, a Sawyers, a first cousin of David's, had murdered a Delby, had slit the man's throat with a butcher knife, on account of the Delby's having cast aspersions on the reputation of the Sawyers's mother. The young Delby man had in fact asserted that the Sawyers woman was "a cocksucking whore," which most people agreed was a step or two beyond what anybody ought--even at the height of a name-calling quarrel--to say about another person's mother. As a matter of fact, for generations to come in the hamlet of Rosemary, that particular incident drew the line http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

A Fire in the Rain

Huddle, David
Appalachian Review , Volume 31 (4) – Jan 8, 2003
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FICTION David Huddle DAVID SAWYERS WAS TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD. He and Judy had gotten married when he was nineteen and she was sixteen. They had boys, one and three years old. David had started working for the carbide plant three weeks after he'd gotten married. David was a Rosemary Sawyers, which for most of the people in the county suggested that he was not necessarily law-abiding or smart or wellmannered or hygienic or ambitious, but that he was probably hard-working, uncomplaining, accustomed to the deprivations that came with being poor, and fiercely loyal, especially when it came to family. Within David's lifetime, a Sawyers, a first cousin of David's, had murdered a Delby, had slit the man's throat with a butcher knife, on account of the Delby's having cast aspersions on the reputation of the Sawyers's mother. The young Delby man had in fact asserted that the Sawyers woman was "a cocksucking whore," which most people agreed was a step or two beyond what anybody ought--even at the height of a name-calling quarrel--to say about another person's mother. As a matter of fact, for generations to come in the hamlet of Rosemary, that particular incident drew the line

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Published: Jan 8, 2003

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