Billy Constable hadn’t been sleeping soundly and at four o’clock one June morning he found himself prowling his living room with a cup of coffee clutched in an unsteady hand. …

Carl the cremator lived next door—Carl and his big wife, Brenda, who was allergic to the sun, the outdoors, anything at all that required getting off the couch. We would …

All in all, it had been a fine wedding. Enough to eat, enough to drink. Plenty of cameras

From that day on, my husband’s sister no longer seemed to be so angry that we had gotten married, and she started phoning us all the time