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It’s an insane idea, yes, but hell, this is war. If insanity works, a general is duty-bound to use it.

— Andy Duncan Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)

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Max, you are a melodrama with no audience and a cast of one!

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)

I went, shouted louder and louder, tried to clear my mind so that, when necessary, I could act without thinking, act like a soldier.

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)

Stephen knew I first served the Church by stocking reliquaries—transmuting unused bits of rotting paupers into the toes and teeth of saints.

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)

People will say bout anything. That don’t mean I have to believe it. What I see with my own eyes, that I believe.

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)

She didn’t look around as I slammed the front door and locked it, just like I promised I’d do—cept I was outside the door, on the porch, when I done it.

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)

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