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Minnie Lee

Robert Funderburk

Drunk, wearing a rumpled and vomit-stained suit,
a blade thin man wobbled down the gravel drive
to the white frame house; banged on the door
for several minutes before the porch light came on.
Thirty seconds later the door opened. Standing in
the darkened house, stood a wisp of a woman in a
long robe, greying hair pinned up on her head. A
girl in her mid-teens stood to her left; a shotgun
stock rested on the floor to her right.
“I’m lost.”
“Don’t doubt it. But this ain’t the time or place
to git saved.”
“Huh?”
“You better head on down the street,” the shotgun
now cradled in her arms.
He jerked the screen door, popping the latch. “I
reckon I’ll come in and visit a spell.”
As his foot touched the door sill, the shotgun barrel
swung upward, the muzzle six inches from his face.
The drunk heard the hammer cock, blinked, mouth
open, eyes staring at the lethal hole just beyond his
nose. Easing slowly backward, he mumbled, “Maybe
I’ll jist ease on down the road.”
Silence from within the house, the dark barrel steady
on his face.
He fell backward off the porch, managed to right himself
and headed for the road in a stumbling run.

Introduction to my grandmother, the preacher’s wife,
daughter of a moonshiner, as gentle a soul as lived in
the 48 states. Unless you were the wolf to her family
of lambs.

(First published by Evening Street Review)

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