Second Chance Slip
The Second Chance was a white sailboat, thirty two feet, with a blue canvas cover and a name painted in tidy black letters across the stern. It sat in slip …
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The Card Drawer
I sat on the floor of the study of my brother with the drawer open in my lap and the calendar spread across my knees. Under the cards, at the …
The Card Drawer Read MoreThe Last Ribbon
The voice behind me in the third pew said, “Ardith, would you do me the kindness of turning around?” I had known that voice for fifty years. It had sung …
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The man who climbed down from the cab of the rollback was Mr. Gatlin. He was seventy, lean as a fence post, with a gray ponytail and a face the …
Mister Ike Route Read MoreInside The Mountain
The hidden door in the plaster mountain was no bigger than a picture frame. It swung open on a hinge of brass wire, and inside the hollow of the peak, …
Inside The Mountain Read MoreThe Horse Stall
At midnight the barn smelled of old hay and dust and the sweet rot of a hundred years of oats. I carried the flashlight in one hand and the key …
The Horse Stall Read MoreThe Other Side
Side B was not a song. The grooves ran out in a ring of silence, and on the paper label, in the slanted blue ink of my husband, were three …
The Other Side Read MoreTuesday Night Radio
The first thing Gil took out of the coffee can was a cassette tape. It was an ordinary tape, the kind you buy in a plastic case at the drugstore, …
Tuesday Night Radio Read MoreThe Navy Dress
The nurse set her clipboard on the counter, picked up one of the little yellow pills between two fingers, and held it to the light. Then she looked at me …
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The white powder in the capsule had no smell. It sat in my palm like a pinch of flour, pale and fine and perfectly ordinary, and I stood at my …
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