Account For Buster
The red collar lay in my palm, soft as a glove, the brass buckle gone green. I turned the folded paper over. Walt had written the name of Buster at …
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Gene Left Behind
Gene had written my name on the envelope the way he wrote everything, in square capital letters that leaned slightly forward, as if they were in a hurry to get …
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I did not touch the envelope. I looked at my son, in the chair of his father at the head of my table, with twelve widows gone silent around him, …
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Tessa put a cup of tea in front of Derek and did not say a word, and I will always remember her for that. She pulled out the chair next …
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I took the clipboard off its hook behind the freezer door and carried it out of the cafeteria with my apron folded over my arm. In the parking lot the …
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I popped the latch and lifted the lid an inch, and a hand came up and gripped the edge. It was the hand of a girl, small, with bitten nails …
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I put my hand on the envelope and slid it back across the table toward my brother. It cost me nothing. The slot machines behind us sang their sweet idiot …
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The young clerk turned her monitor so that I could see it, and her voice dropped to a whisper. “Mrs. Lindqvist, there is something strange about the deed.” She was …
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I walked down the center aisle of that clubhouse in the silence of forty people holding their breath, and I placed the first folder on the table in front of …
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Two sets of boots stopped outside the curtain, and I made the only decision of my career that I have never second guessed. I pulled back the curtain myself. The …
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