The Page With The Ribbon
The next Sunday I took the second verse, and my voice broke twice but I got through it, and after service Brother Willis put that old red hymnal in my …
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Not Before The House Is Sold
Wednesday morning Janet walked me into a little back office at the courthouse and I broke the county seal on the envelope Betty had filed in 2015, and my wifes …
Not Before The House Is Sold Read MoreAfter The First Frost
Thursday morning the grass was white and Earl knocked at seven, and I sat at our kitchen table and unscrewed the cap of Dons green Stanley thermos, and something small …
After The First Frost Read MoreThe Other Photograph
I peeled the electrical tape off Bobbys rusty tin box at Mr. Tates kitchen table, the morning after I found the photograph in his tackle box, the one of young …
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January 3rd the roads finally cleared and I drove to St. Annes and sat in the last pew where Paul always sat and broke the seal on Father Mikes envelope, …
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At 4:15 Mr. Duncan knocked again, and I put on my reading glasses and poured my glass of water and sat on the porch swing where I had sat alone …
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Saturday I locked the den door and turned my phone off like Carol asked, and pressed play on Lindas old VCR, and there she was on the screen, my wife, …
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Monday I sat in Mr. Hales quiet office and he handed me the envelope Dennis had left, the one marked only if she chooses the blue casket, and I opened …
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Carl came at eight and I made coffee and opened Harolds little cracked Bible to page 1,012, and pressed flat between the pages was a photograph, black and white, of …
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Sunday morning I slid Franks cassette into the boom box with four fresh Duracells, and pressed play, and my husbands voice filled the kitchen for the first time in three …
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