"You stole the safety fund." Selectman Royce Packard's finger was already pointed straight at Lorna Beauchene's face when he said it. She had been…
Preston Crockett put one hand flat on Ellis Ward's chest and shoved him back into the ferry rail hard enough that the coil of…
"Nobody pays to watch the help," Barb Keefer shouted, and wiped the muddy drag-rag flat down the front of Delmar Hoy's shirt. Eleven hundred…
"Real cooks use real knives, grandpa," Dustin said — and threw Hank's canvas knife roll into the walk-in cooler in front of the whole…
Ward Stetler took the shovel right out of Elmer Vance's hands, drove it into the grass beside the obelisk, and said, "Digging is all…
Captain Lonnie Broussard had T-Boy Thibodeaux by the shirt collar in front of forty buyers, and his voice carried all the way to the…
"Get this junk out of my building," Coach Denny Krol said, and kicked Orval Renn's mop bucket down the gym hallway in front of…
Gil Hargrove ripped the keys off Wanda Puckett's belt loop and threw them skidding across the dispatch counter into a fan of route sheets,…
Marlene Duclos slammed her palm on the potluck table so hard the Jell-O salads jumped, then pointed at Arlene Kasparek and said, "Get out…
"You can barely cross a street!" Mayor Chuck Renfro jabbed his finger at the 61-year-old woman in the third row, and half the gymnasium…
“Where’s the money, dishwasher?” Post Commander Dale Prine had Earl “Skeeter” Dawson by the apron collar in front of two hundred people at the…
Dot Aimes raised Amos Pruitt's timecard over her head in front of ninety parents in the Ellsworth County cafeteria and said the words "You're…