The Ice Storm Night
“You married him a year later,” Dr. Whitmore said to Lorraine, in a voice so quiet that forty women leaned forward to hear. “The drunk young doctor was my son …
The Ice Storm Night Read MoreBlog
The Hargrove Pew
“The man who was driving that night,” Marisol Vega said in her small living room, among the photographs of her husband in his Marine dress blues, “is Wilbur Hargrove. He …
The Hargrove Pew Read MoreLocker 211
The man with the gun, my grandfather said in the back of that ambulance, was somebody I had met. He had been at my high school graduation. He had shaken …
Locker 211 Read MoreThe Porch Light Ad
“The man is Dale Greer,” Granddaddy had written on the white strip under the faded picture. “Deputy sheriff, Barren County. I took this from my truck. The girl was still …
The Porch Light Ad Read MoreThe Orchard Survey
“I know who did it,” Harold had written, “because I saw him in the barn that night with a lug wrench. His name is Ricky Dale Sumner. He works for …
The Orchard Survey Read MoreThe Neighbor Camera
The word Scott mouthed to the camera was Sorry. I played it back nine times at my kitchen table at two in the morning, and each time it was the …
The Neighbor Camera Read MoreForty One Videos
“The man she owes money to,” my mother said from the glowing screen, “is the same man who sold your daddy that boat in 1994. His name is Lenny Boudreaux. …
Forty One Videos Read MoreThe Monday Withdrawals
The note that Opal had written under my four words said: I do not have a nephew. I held it in my palm like a hot coal, standing in the …
The Monday Withdrawals Read MoreThe Pink Lunch Ticket
“Douglas, sit down,” Evelyn said again, and this time her son sat. He lowered himself into the chair at the head of the table like a man whose legs had …
The Pink Lunch Ticket Read MoreThe Church Safe
The man in the third pew was named Clifford Tate. I knew it before Linda said it, because I had met him that morning in the parking lot, an upright, …
The Church Safe Read More