House Across from the Deaf School

The House across from the Deaf School, Michael Gills’ third collection of short fiction, continues the life and times of Joey Harvell, whose stepfather, in “Last Words on Lonoke,” gives him a .30-06, tells him not to aim at anything he doesn’t want to kill, and “that’s pretty much it for [his] gun safety lessons.”  Later, in “What The Newly Dead Don’t Know But Learn,” his uncle swims Joey and a gr...