The Ribbon Page
I laid the extra page from the ledger flat on the table of the booth at the diner of Dottie, put on my strongest glasses, and read the handwriting under …
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Twelve Hundred Shares
I stood in the alley behind the bakehouse with the white envelope open in my hands and the smell of rising dough all around me, and I read the typed …
Twelve Hundred Shares Read MoreBooth Number Three
I opened the blue stationery with the little embossed dogwood on a Friday afternoon, in the middle of the salon of Paisley, with a comb still in my other hand, …
Booth Number Three Read MoreThe Parlor Piano
I read the listing in the choir loft with my glasses on my nose and my hearing aids tucked snugly behind my ears, in the fine thin light of a …
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I looked at the picture of the security camera for a long time on the edge of the loading dock, with the coolers sweating beside me and the smell of …
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I read the paper there in the middle of the bridge, with the river whispering under the boards and the sun coming through the window cut in the wall, and …
Box Three Seventeen Read MoreThe Blue Title
I peeled the masking tape from the spare key with my thumbnail, there at the window of the county treasurer, and read the number in the square printing of Arnold. …
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I laid the letter flat on the Lone Star quilt, smoothed it with the side of my hand, and read the date a third time with my glasses pushed up …
The Memphis Letter Read MoreThe Pink Receipt
I read the pink receipt a third time by the dome light of the car, with the heater roaring and the snow ticking on the roof, and I understood it …
The Pink Receipt Read MoreThe Napkin Deed
I smoothed the napkin flat on the marble counter of the treasurer and read it twice, aloud, in the voice I used for reading the numbers of parts to farmers …
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