Quarry Road Bingo
At the top of the hill, the sun was already sinking behind the pines, and the whole valley looked like a bowl of orange tea. The curve below was empty …
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Behind The Vacuum
Inside the inner drawer of the safe lay no savings bonds at all. There was a flat leather case, and under it a folded sheet of blue paper, and under …
Behind The Vacuum Read MoreThursday At Ten
The line under my signature read Destiny Marie Pruett, Attorney in Fact. Not Kevin. Not even a business name. A stranger with foils in her hair, who had been reading …
Thursday At Ten Read MoreBack Bedroom
The front door of that peeling farmhouse stood wide open, and the screen door swung back and forth in the wind with a sound like a tired breath. Both pickups …
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The voice through my front door was low, polite, and patient. “Mrs. Tolbert,” it said. “My name is Dr. Calloway Voss. I am a physician, and this young woman is …
Guest Room Door Read MoreBehind The Wall
What the detective pulled out of the wall was a dented green milk can, the old kind with a screw lid, the kind that sat at the end of every …
Behind The Wall Read MorePump Number Four
Caden was carrying a shoebox. It was an old white shoebox, soft at the corners, tied with a faded blue ribbon, and he held it in front of him with …
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The headlights turned onto our street at a quarter to one, slow, as if the driver was counting the mailboxes. I sat in the dark in the recliner of Dub, …
The Green Ford Read MoreLetters To Ledger
The man leaning on the tailgate of that pickup was Hank Lassiter. He was eighty four years old, and he wore a clean white shirt buttoned to the throat and …
Letters To Ledger Read MoreOrder For Two
Inside the bowling bag there was no ball. There were twenty eight small green notebooks, one for every year, held together with rubber bands, and a manila envelope with a …
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