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“After work the following Monday Larry sat on his porch not reading but waiting in his usual company of bats and birds and insects, the tinkling of his mother's chime each time the earth breathed its wind. He was disappointed but not surprised when the night stole the far trees and the fence across the road and then the road itself and finally the sky, Larry's truck gone too in the dark and stars beginning to wink in the sky like nail holes in the roof of a barn.”

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Tom Franklin
Tom Franklin

Tom Franklin, born on July 7, 1963, is an acclaimed American fiction writer known for his unique narrative style and profound portrayal of rural Southern life in the United States. more

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