The Other Band
Kipper had not moved from my wrist, and the little steel band on his leg caught the light from the waiting room window. I held the paper up beside it. …
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Days on Market
I looked at that little gray number for a long time, sugar. Seven hundred and thirty one days. It was two years to the week since we buried Burl, and …
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I laid the two brass keys side by side on the green felt of the table in the small viewing room at Agate Bay Savings, the one of mine with …
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I took the paper with the gold seal from the hand of my son, there on the dock at sunup, with the mist rising off the water and a bluegill …
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I read the report of the deputy there on the folding table at the Oroville farmers market, with the sun beating down and the sound of a fiddle somewhere behind …
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I held the entry form up to the lamp in the announcer stand, with the microphone switched off under my hand and the whole grandstand waiting in the dusk below, …
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I held the tube up to the fluorescent light of the window and turned it slowly between my fingers, and I read the label on it the way I had …
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I put on my reading glasses, there on the dais of the council chamber, with the clerk waiting and the gavel in her hand and the room filling up with …
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I turned the screenshot face up on the desk in Room 114, under the buzzing light, and read the group chat from the top, with my glasses on my nose …
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I read the subpoena on the wooden bench outside Courtroom 4 with my glasses on the end of my nose and my navy suit buttoned to the chin, and I …
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