Terrydale was a hamlet much too small to be located on any map, and so war came to it as it comes to such places—not through the trampling of armies over its quaint town square, or the burning of ... [+]
Knox had been hanging around 8th street since before they put in the ATMs. We didn't know where he lived, but that's where he'd been ever since I'd moved here about ten years ago. He used a cracked Route 66 mug to collect money, and if you gave him some, he'd toast you with the mug, like it was full of drink. He'd get all poetic if you crumpled in bills rather than clinked coins. He told me once he'd wanted to be a poet but "missed the boat." He looked to be in his 50s—scraggily beard, wild hair. He wore an old 49ers jersey every day with the name Hearst on the back, #20. Work pants. He wore a
