From high school love notes to a drug runner's day; from a boy's first fistfight to the unexpected aftermath of a woman's first experience of marijuana, Dale Herd's stories travel the backroads, sending postcards of life as it is lived.
"Herd's pieces are tightly crafted, many honing in on a single scene or conversation. His sharp prose cuts cleanly in and out of the lives of his myriad protagonists."The Foxing ReviewEmpty Pockets collects nineteen new and sixty-four previously published stories from one of America's masters of the form."Largehearted BoyNineteen new stories by Herd join the sixty-four selected picks, making f
