Preposterous Tales of Tall-Tale Tilly

Tilly Bellweather has a tall tale for everything—a heartbroken cow, a churchgoing raccoon, a bean-elevated fool, and a snapping turtle with better timing than most men in Mulebone Creek. Folks laugh because Tilly stretches the truth so far it ought to snap. But when fences are cut, cattle are lured toward disputed water, and a smooth land schemer named Hollis Trant starts turning neighbors against...