With all that’s going on in the world today, it’s nice to live in a small town where people have their priorities straight. Bread. Stale bread. How much is a person, a people, a society expected to endure, eh? Some brave soul broke the code…

So I’m putting together that collection of Lonnie and Tiny stories. The usual thing would be to name it after the lead story, but that’s Lonnie, Me, and the Hound of Hell, and I already named a collection of stories (only one of which was…

Lonnie’s wife, Leona, is a hard-shell Baptist who doesn’t hold with the commercialization of Christmas. So when Lonnie asks Tiny to help him put Leona’s giant Santa on the roof, Tiny is understandably dubious. Some Santa excerpt from “Lonnie, Me, and the Blowed-Up Santa” by…