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Henry, the truck driver—a pudgy, balding milkman who became a long distance truck driver and took to chewing tobacco when his young wife ran off with the revival preacher—only comes to the diner on Mondays, because for the rest of the week he is on the road somewhere between here and Bakersfield.
Today is January 4, 1960, and soon, a Facel Vega FV3B will crash outside Paris, killing one—but Sisyphus will roll on.
First published in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, April 2010.