Denis Lehane: The dangers of a shaggy dog story

While I have received overwhelming sympathy from the farming community on account of my broken hand, it hasn’t been without controversy.

You see, some people doubt that it was a kick from a bullock caused my injury. Many feel my life is far more exciting than that.

“You’ll have to come up with a better story than that,” Jerry the postman cheerfully announced the other day, after I told him of how a lash from one of the cattle had caused my trouble.