Tilbury Town

…a small New England village, Tilbury Town, very much like the Gardiner, Maine, in which he grew up.

…is set in the fictional Tilbury Town. The narrative concerns lonely, isolated Eben Flood, resident of Tilbury Town, who climbs a hill above the town one moonlit night and walks down an empty road drunk and alone. Frequently drinking from a jug of liquor, “secure, with only two moons listening,”…