A Good Mule is Hard to Find

Down on his luck, a farmer raffles off a dead mule. While preparing a Sunday dinner, a woman finds her lost diamond in a chicken gizzard. A litter of orphaned baby possums finds a home. Just like his blue jeans after an adventure in Dead Horse Canyon, Kirk Neely's tales are caked with red clay. Neely, a much beloved pastor from Spartanburg, writes about the ordinary — casseroles and sweet tea, black bears and beagle dogs, WD—40 and Duct Tape, Tabasco Sauce and fatback. Accompanied by striki...