Shiloh was written by Bobbie Ann Mason and published in 1982. This particular story modeled her surroundings as a younger child. She grew up on a farm near a small city. The setting of Shiloh is in a town of eleven thousand, five hundred people around 1950. Leroy, a truck driver who was recently involved in an accident and hurt his leg, realizes that his wife doesn't feel for him anymore throughout the course of the story. &…showed first 75 words of 495 total…

…showed last 75 words of 495 total…fallen asleep and his bad leg was still bothering him, never the less he tries to hobble toward her. She turns toward him and waives her arms as though she is exercising and then disappears to the other side of the bluff. The life that she was living was too much to handle and she couldn't take it anymore because she didn't have any help to deal with it from her mother or her husband.