Letting Loose the Hounds Stories Author:Brady Udall Eleven stories featuring men protagonists. The story, The Ballad of Ball and Chain, is one man's idea of marriage, Midnight Raid is a man's confrontation with his ex-wife and her new husband, and in The Opposite of Loneliness, a man finds the answer to loneliness in service to the less fortunate. — Midnight raid -- — Buckeye the Elder -- — ... more »Ballad of the ball and chain --