The Organ Deed
The chairman of the deacons stood on my front porch at seven the next morning with his hat in one hand and a bouquet of white lilies in the other, …
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Paid In Full
Karin Gunderson called at seven the next morning, exactly as she had said she would, and I was already standing in my kitchen with the coffee going cold and the …
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The voice on the telephone that night was Judge Marjorie Hale, who had been the youngest judge in Lubbock County when I first typed her cases in 1998. She had …
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Through the glass of my front door in Sedona, at eleven o clock that Thursday morning, I saw two people I did not know standing on the step. One was …
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My daughter called from a number I did not know, at a quarter past eight that evening, while I sat on the wooden bench outside the Florence police station with …
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The first thing I saw when I pulled into the driveway of the sister of my daughter in Warrensburg was Renee herself, standing on the front step in her bathrobe …
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The lawyer who unscrewed the lid of that pill bottle was named Harlan Beck, a stooped man of eighty one with white eyebrows like tufts of cotton and a bow …
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The firefighter who lifted me out of the coal chute was a broad shouldered young man named Marcus Dolan, with soot on his cheek and a flashlight strapped to his …
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The gravel road through the pines was narrow and rutted, and my mother sat in the passenger seat of my Buick with her purse on her knees and her eyes …
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The voice on the telephone at six in the morning was warm and low and a little shaky, the voice of a woman who has practiced a sentence a hundred …
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