Under The Vinyl
I set my knife down real slow, because the compartment hollowed out under that back hall floor, hidden beneath forty-year-old sheet vinyl, held a childs things. A pair of tiny …
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Over Deep Water
I set my pry bar down real slow, because the dry compartment sealed inside that piling, out over the deep water, held a cylinder of oilcloth, and inside the oilcloth …
Over Deep Water Read MoreHe Never Lost It
Mr Abernathy, the jeweler who sold us our rings in 1974, set a small velvet box in front of Leon at the Longhorn, wished us a happy fiftieth, and watched …
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Walter Briggs, the old piano tuner in the bow tie, set his tool bag down beside my mothers 1923 Steinway, wished her a happy Mothers Day, and then turned to …
What It Would Sell For Read MoreNo DUI No Settlement
The doors of the VFW hall opened at our fiftieth anniversary, and in walked a woman who looked a great deal like Brandon, and a Franklin County sheriffs deputy. The …
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Monica, my brothers ex-wife, handed my mother a folded paper across the fifty-two degree kitchen and said, Patricia, I did not know about the furnace until Jenny called me. Derek …
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Arthur Holmquist, ninety-four years old, in a Legion cap that said Korea 1950, unwrapped the blanket at my fathers grave and revealed a gray granite headstone with a flag on …
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The tiny old woman in the green wool coat set down her suitcase, and my grandmother whispered, Siobhan. Then the old woman turned to my cousin Shannon and said, You …
Siobhan From Cork Read MoreThe Refund Ricky Asked For
Dr Fran Holloway, Earls vet, walked across the yard past Rickys brand-new bass boat, knelt to scratch old Dukes ears, and then said to Ricky, You came into my office …
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Dr Marcus Bell stood up at the First Baptist potluck, told the whole fellowship hall that thirty-eight years ago Miss Rose taught him to read, and then he turned to …
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