After surviving a gruesome accident, a Catholic priest struggles with life. A short story
A junkyard mystery
He was just one old man with a little brown book of Bible stories. How could he compete with MTV, the Playboy Channel, and rental movies where people kill each other with no more thought than it would take to swat a fly?
“That story’s sadder’n a armless old man in a room full of skeeters,” Raynelle said. “You sorry sons of bitches tell the depressingest lies I ever heard.”
Something about the way she looked at him suggested toughness .Before long he knew why