I Shall Be Gone

Something funny is going on in the mind of Jobeus. He's been lying awake at night having visions. It's been a week since they moved him to the Hawses' foster home way out in the country, and the house is still strange, the old man in the pajamas downstairs is weird. Here the legend of a hero long gone still hangs over the hills. Jobeus is awake in the dark. He can't stop thinking about the Hawses' older daughter. The cat out in the pothole seems to be waiting on him. He's lost everything, and now he's beginning to lose his head too. Something is about to happen. But where it all goes, only the west wind knows.