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@,20 The Good Son

it was hell's season, and the air smelled of burning children.
This smell was what had destroyed Dan Lambert's taste for
barbecued pork sandwiches. Before August of 1969, the year he'd turned
twenty, his favorite food had been barbecue crispy at the edges and
drenched with sloppy red sauce.
After the eleventh day of that month, the smell of it was enough
to make him sick to death.
He was driving east through Shreveport on 70th Street, into the
glare of the morning sun. It glanced off the hood of his gray pickup
truck and stabbed his eyes, inflaming the slow ache in his skull. He
knew this pain, and its vagaries.
Sometimes it came upon him like a brute with a hammer, sometimes