Qualities or Characteristics Of

by Bill Stobb

Originally published on October 1, 2001

The way you’ll see his smoke before him, coming around a corner, eddying out into thin winter air, and the way eddies automatically associate with backwater and dust and lives that just backwater and settle. He smokes, “knows it will kill him,” as they say. I like to pronounce it accurately, kill him, to emphasize [...]