When Odell tells Wanda his mother is coming for a visit, she hurries to the kitchen, jerks the silverware drawer open and grabs the paring knife.
“What on earth is the matter with you,” he says, following her into the kitchen.
Brenda G. Wooley grew up on a farm in Kentucky in a family of avid storytellers and colorful friends and neighbors. Much of her writing is drawn from those characters, hoping to capture and preserve the unique dialogue, eccentricities and contradictions of the people she knows best.