The Backyard Bowl
The man with the camera was named Rex Dillard, and Mr. Begay found him within thirty hours. He was the brother of Tracy, a pale restless man of forty with …
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The Lilac Garden
Orville Pike told me the rest on the tailgate of his old truck in the parking lot of Holy Spirit church, in a cold wind, with the funeral luncheon going …
The Lilac Garden Read MoreThe Feed Box Tapes
The person Mama had seen at the bottom of that ladder was my brother. Her voice on the tape was thin and steady, and I listened to it in the …
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The man who paid in cash on the first of every month was named Luis Vega, and he arrived at the office of the storage facility in a brown delivery …
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The boy in the photograph had my eyes. I do not mean the color, though that was the same too, a pale gray blue that runs in the Peterson family …
The Rectory Study Read MoreThe Taped Envelope
Phil tore the old tape from the envelope with an unsteady thumb. He is a stout man of seventy with a tanned head and a gold watch, and I had …
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The man in the cowboy hat took one slow step forward, and I saw Rick stop dead on the planks of the dock as if he had run into a …
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The papers were in the water heater closet, folded small, behind a box of rat traps. Nana Pearl had remembered the exact spot, because Duane had hidden them there himself …
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Annie told the rest in the wind behind First Lutheran, with her hands pressed into the pockets of her thin coat and her eyes on the gray water of the …
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The face in the white SUV belonged to a man named Roy Tillman. I knew him the instant Cody froze the picture, though I had not seen him in twenty …
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