For The Boy
The first thing that fell out onto the desk was a photograph, small and curled, of a young man in an Army uniform leaning against a pickup truck with his …
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The Last Notebook
On the last page of the last notebook, in the shaky pencil of my father, dated the week he died, was a single paragraph. Nonie, I have watched that house …
The Last Notebook Read MoreCourtroom Six
“Sharon,” Gary said, with his back to me at the kitchen window and the glass of sweet tea in his hand, “I am going to drive myself downtown in the …
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On the back of the Polaroid, in the shaky hand of my father, were three lines in blue ballpoint. Jo Ellen Wiebe, 1118 Gulf Breeze Court, Sarasota. And under it, …
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The first line of the page said, in the round careful print of a thirteen year old boy, “Dear Mrs. Lindquist, I am the one under the porch. Thank you …
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The third man who had signed the bill of sale as a witness was the Reverend Moses Pickett, pastor of our church for thirty one years and the man who …
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The fire investigator who called at dawn was a woman named Kowalski from the Sheridan County Sheriff, and she spoke with the careful kindness of someone delivering a hard thing. …
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The page for April 1994 was there, and it was blank where it should not have been. I sat down on the floor of the office of Luther with the …
Pink Neon Read MoreThe Third Song
The pawn ticket was a pale yellow slip, soft as cloth, with the name of a shop in Visalia printed across the top in red. On the front a clerk …
The Third Song Read MoreThe Cigar Box
The first line of the letter, written on Army letterhead in the spring of 1974 and addressed to my husband at our little apartment on Main Street, said: Sergeant Gilley, …
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