Shannon

We dug a hole behind the barn, threw logs in, started a fire, and covered our new pit with strong wire mesh. We’d butchered a pig, and now we placed slabs of meat on the wire, and the twenty-or-so of us sat, stood, or lay--telling tales and laughing while the whiskey went around and smoke rose in the slate-gray winter day. Later, the boss cut some meat and handed out bottles of hot sauce and loaves of bread.