Stay Away from Places with Directions in Their Names

He saw no need to damn a place just on the face of it; he figured there must be a flower blooming somewhere in West Memphis, though he had seen no sign of one, and that maybe East St. Louis had a park where children played tag-you’re-it together while old men read newspapers from benches and spoke of last night’s ballgame. 

From the Short Story “Stay Away from Places with Directions in Their Names” by David Wesley Williams; Published by Oxford American; Image by Nicole Wilcox 

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