The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

I love his writing, but the alcoholic-ridden stories get me down after a while.

I was a victim of a high school high school basketball form of Post-Traumatic Free-Throw Stress Syndrome.

Leads and Endings in a short story:

Lead: Although it was winter, the nearest ocean four hundred miles away, and the Tribal Weatherman asleep because of boredom, a hurricane dropped from the sky in 1976 and fell so hard on the Spokane Indian Reservation that it knocked Victor from bed and his latest nightmare.

Ending: But it was over.  Victor closed his eyes, fell asleep.  It was over.  The hurricane that fell out of the sky in 1976 left before sunrise, and all the Indians, the eternal survivors, gathered to count their losses.