The Key to Willow Lane
the truth about who you are, and why he stayed away,” the woman finished. “Come in, child. Sit down and rest. I am Ione Dabney, and I have kept this …
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The Ring and Chapel
my Aunt Dorothea, the older sister of my mother, the one whose name nobody in our family had spoken since 1979. I sat very still in a leather chair at …
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carrying my name, Abner, as his middle name, and nobody ever told me he existed.” The old man pressed a trembling hand to his mouth. I stood frozen in the …
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a stranger to water these plants, Emily.” It was Patricia, and her voice was thin and tired, but it was unmistakably hers. “Mark is with me, sweetheart. Please do not …
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Lena, and it was not her little boy either. Nobody was inside that house at all.” The voice on the phone belonged to Walt Ostrander, eighty two years old and …
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pulled over for a girl standing in the snow outside Van Wert?” Detective Moran asked gently. I stared at him. My husband Ray had been laid to rest three years …
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it was the brown leather suitcase our Grandpa Walt carried out of Oklahoma in 1949, the one with the two cracked brass latches and the initials W.H. stamped near the …
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it was the Baptiste sapphire, the blue stone our great grandmother wore for fifty years, and it had been missing since the summer of 1998. That summer split us in …
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he had coached boys basketball at our county high school for thirty one years. Coach Daniel Whitaker. The clippings went back to 1986, first a skinny guard scoring thirty points, …
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it was the blue flatbed of Del Hobart, the treasurer of the Potter County 4 H Scholarship Fund. In 2007 Del left town in that truck the same week the …
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