I’m having a memorial open house for my mother today. She passed January 2nd, but I’m just now able to face a memorial. ANYWAY, she liked Lonnie best of my characters, and she liked “Lonnie, Me, and the Hound of Hell” (which she persisted in…

In this excerpt, Tiny is going to Scrappy’s junkyard to get a part for a washing machine. Lonnie wants to come along. In a moment of weakness, Tiny agrees. Lonnie believes Scrappy has “a garden of unearthly pleasure,” which Tiny puts down as nonsense, but…