The HR manager, a woman named Diane, read the dates. Then she pulled up my travel records on her own screen. The company had booked both trips. Frankfurt in March. …
The Coworker Who Filed Anonymous Complaints About Me Read MoreThe supplier receipts said one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. That was every tile, every bag of thinset, every tube of grout Duane had ever bought for my bathroom. …
The Contractor Who Dragged Out a Two Month Bathroom Job Read MoreThe last one was an essay on To Kill a Mockingbird. Time stamped in the school system on October 14th at 9:47 at night. Opened by the teacher account on …
The Teacher Who Failed My Daughter on Work She Had Done Read MoreHis fiancee, Amber, picked up the page before he could. She read it once. Then she read it again, slower. It was in her handwriting, the same careful cursive Grandma …
The Cousin Who Said Grandma Gave Him Her Ring Read MoreMarv stopped chuckling. There was a long pause on the phone. Then he asked me which tenant. I told him. Her name was Donna Reyes. She had rented a two …
The Landlord Who Kept Every Security Deposit Read MoreWes stopped leaning on the counter. He looked at the phone in my hand, then at the spreadsheet on the screen, then at the red dot in the corner. He …
The Manager Who Made Me Clock Out and Keep Working Read MoreInside that second tank, bolted to a frame and wrapped in oilcloth, was a copper still. A real one. The pot, the cap, the coiled worm, all hand hammered and …
The Tank Man Found a Second Buried Tank No Record Mentioned Read MoreDown in that hollow was a wooden toolbox. Handmade, dovetailed at the corners, oiled so many times the wood had gone almost black. Wrapped in a canvas tarp and set …
The Deck Builder Found a Footing That Held Up Nothing Read MoreInside that box, wrapped in a quilt and wedged between the rafters, was a fiddle case. Old black leather, cracked at the corners. I carried it down the ladder like …
The Gutter Man Found a Downspout That Carried No Water Read MoreWhat came out of that hollow was a steel ammunition box, the old Army surplus kind, rusted on the outside and bone dry on the inside. Painted on the lid, …
The Tree Man Found Something Cemented Inside a Dead Oak Read More