The Iron Witch

Tales from the Author: The Caterpillar Joke

Once upon a terribly dreary time in a blink-and-you-miss-it stretch of the Earth called Skyview, Kansas, there was a perfectly normal if mournfully forlorn fellow named Randy Allen Wilkes, and his was a broken heart: His beloved wife of ten years, Delores Lucille, had been killed in a twisted, burning wreck with a very drunk driver on her ironic way to work at a local pub called “Mug/Shots,” a truly lamentable occurrence which took place nearly seven years prior to the moment in which I find myself typing these words in and amidst the very wrong tale of one man’s woe in the aftermath of loss.