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"If there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s that logic is the sworn enemy of grief," writes Halimah Marcus, co-editor of Electric Literature, in her introduction to “Firewood," a hilarious and devastating story by J. Robert Lennon. "When the narrator’s wife (expectedly) leaves him, too devastated to admit the obvious, he concocts an impossible explanation for her disappearance. All I’ll say is that it involves the woodpile. The invented story is more horrible than the truth, but somehow easier to manage."

This is one family getaway they’ll never forget . . . Leigh Somerset wants to spend some quality time with her kids before they grow up, and her husband has always fancied himself sort of a Clark Griswold figure. So the Somersets will be spending their family vacation on the road, driving...

The Greatest Stories Ever Told gathers the tallest tales, the deepest digressions, and the most fabulous fabrications, revealing life for the Tappet Brothers, both in and out of the garage. Besides telling you more than you ever wanted to know about Tom and Ray, The Greatest Stories Ever Told will answer mysteries such as "whatever happened to Tommy's Dart?" and "why is Doug the subway fugitive?"