long stories Michael Hatcher pick of the month real life stories Friday, June 4, 2021 Justus P. Goodbody by Michael Hatcher When eighteen-year-old Justus Goodbody's father dies, a long overdue visit from his good-for-nothing mother is a chance for redemption; by Michael Hatcher. The old man, my grandfather, Junius T. Goodbody, died in the spring of his seventy-seventh year in our little speck-on-the-map town of Howling Gulch, Nebraska, and left me, at seventeen and green around the ears, holding the bucket. Of cour… Read more Labels: long stories Michael Hatcher pick of the month real life stories 7 comments: