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Contents Funeral 1 The Millstone 5 Skeletons in the Closet 9 Bone Doctors 15 Grandma Rock Sentences Everyone to Hell 21 Little Christians, All in a Row 27 Little Monsters in Every Room 33 Memory: Throwing Up 36 A Library of Her Own 39 Forts, Death, and Bedtime 45 Cold War 51 Five O’clock Shadow 55 Head X-ray: Roger in 1957 57 Shit Gathers in General Area of Fan 59 Cyclops and the Fallout Shelter 65 Memory: Dad Helps with Homework 68 Hidden Books, Hidden Letters 71 Eleven Twenty-Two 77 Fun at the Foot of the Volcano 81 Rat Helicopters 89 Cause of Death: Unknown 93 The Pagans 97 “Spats with the Wife” 103 Memory: I Am “Suave Ghost” 107 The Alcoholic’s Guide to Ruining Evenings 109 Snowballs Somehow Made in Hell 115 Memory: I Am “Little Brother Man” 119 Leaving the Millstone 123 “We’ve Always Lived in This Castle” 129 Haunted House 135 Ceiling Tiles over a Psychiatrist’s Couch 141 Memory: I Am “Quiet Man” 144 Things That Were Scarier Than Dad 147 Baba Yaga 161 Memory: I Am the Fifth Beatle 163 Hiding in the Bathroom from Bullets 167 Hiding in the Tower Library 175 Memory: I Am the Incredible Hulk 176 Memory: I Am “Lonely Guy” 177 Pagan Rites 181 Eye of the Hurricane 187 No Help from God 191 Case #34233 195 Daydream: I Am “the Bullshit Police” 196 Suicide 201 One Last Good Christmas 205 Tiny Details in Family Pictures 211 Daydream: I Save Dad 213 [18.191.174.168] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 13:09 GMT) Goodnight, Irene 217 Whiteout/Blackout 223 Meltdown in West Palm Beach 229 “Do I Owe You Any Money?” 233 The Famous Final Scene 237 Zee Tortured Arteest 241 Phone Calls from the Dead 245 This Mortal Coil 249 Room 50 251 The Irish Flu 255 Sunday, July 3, 1966 259 Pagans in the Temple 267 One Last Look 271 Sunlight Streams through a High Window 275 I Believe in God Briefly 279 The Big Bad World 283 Take a Sad Song and Make It Better 289 This Very Room 295 “And Every Winter Change to Spring” 301 Epilogue 304 Acknowledgments 305 Author’s Note 305 ...