They were certainly a pair. Cincinnati in a dead man’s suit, Mother in a dead man’s wallet.

“I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had b…”

“He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it i…”

“The scent of Havana tobacco draped thick from the magnolia trees in the front y…”

“Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.”