I heard a lot of things I know ain’t true and I seen a lot…

“She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight…

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“I guess I’m just sad is all. You and me alike, but sad don’t get the dishes done.”

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“Dead man shouldn’t have no fears. Makes his passing easier.”

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“The oaks along the ridge were writhing like tortured epileptics in the winds, and she could make out through the thick rain a cascade…

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.”

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.”

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.”

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.”

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“Me and her, we know death same as you, we stabbed plenty a man our ownselves. So you come for us you better kill…

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.”

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt…

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“Killing a man is indeed a pleasure unmatched in this world. Perhaps it’s a pleasure we could share.”

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“You’ll likely always have some reason or other to hang onto that girl. You just want her cause she was married to your son,…

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“Way my mama used to tell me, a girl what lusts after a man falls prey to the forces of darkness. The rougarou ain’t…

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“I don’t like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild…

— Samuel Snoek-Brown