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Chris Offutt _ My Father, the Pornographer: A
He demanded to know what I could learn from him, since my subject matter of Kentucky was unfathomably different from his-wealthy people on the East Coast. I became angry. Here was one more older man presenting himself as an obstacle.
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Chris Offutt _ Country Dark
See there," he said. "The ants are drawing up and closing their doors. A book ain't the only thing there is to read. We best get going if we're going to.
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Chris Offutt _ Country Dark
It was country dark. He closed his eyes, feeling safe.
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Chris Offutt _ Country Dark
He wondered why a tree grew so close to the same water that would make it fall. Maybe trees were as greedy as people.
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Chris Offutt _ Country Dark
When the blade dulled, he sharpened it on the rock, an experience he admired-the surface that dulled it could refresh it as well.
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Chris Offutt _ My Father, the Pornographer: A
I'd forced myself to interact with so much pornography, I no longer regarded my wife in a sexual manner. Each time I tried, my mind filled with images of fetish porn. I could admire her dress, legs and hips, but the response was aesthetic and intellectual, as if studying art I couldn't afford.
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Chris Offutt _ Out of the Woods
The state called it recidivism, but as the old cons said, Baker was doing life on the installment plan."
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Chris Offutt _ Kentucky Straight: Stories
Vaughn nodded. Lije steaded himself and looked into the woods. "Never could abide no roof.""Ours ain't the best," Vaughn said. "Leaks come spring."Lije pointed at Venus faint above the distant ridge. "only roof-hole I ever did crave.""Evening star ain't a hole.""Then how's that light get through?
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Chris Offutt _ My Father, the Pornographer
Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich with mountain culture, didn't provide what I needed-the promise of adventure, a life beyond the perimeter of hills. I often fantasized that I'd been adopted and had mysterious powers such as flying or teleportation. Books offered the promise of a world in which misfits like me could flourish. Within the pages of a novel, I was unafraid: of my father, of dogs, snakes, and the bully across the creek; of older boys who drove hot rods close enough to make me jump in the ditch; of armed men parked near the bootlegger.
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Chris Offutt _ My Father, the Pornographer: A
My car contained guns, bundles of cash I'd found hidden about the house, and boxes of vintage pornography. If I got pulled over and searched, I'd probably go to jail. If I had a wreck, money and porn would litter the interstate, mixed with my funeral suit, my grandfather's rifle, a shotgun, three hundred rounds of ammunition, the remnants of my father's ashes, and whatever was left of me.
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Chris Offutt _ Out of the Woods
When I couldn't see the land out there, I forgot I wasn't at home. Sometimes I wished it was always night.
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Chris Offutt _ Out of the Woods
He left and I wished I could go somewhere and start all over, which is how I've felt all my life. As soon as I get somewhere, I'm ready to leave.
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