Edna Voss Boot Fund
I set it down slow because there was a steel cash box in the hole, rusted along the seams, and on its lid someone had laid a yellow card in …
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Silver in the Wall
I set it down slow because the first thing my light found was silver. Two tall candlesticks lay wrapped in a flour sack, tarnished almost black, with a folded wool …
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I set it down slow because the beam of my flashlight landed on three steel tins stacked side by side, like loaves of bread on a shelf, and every lid …
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My husband, Tom, kept his eyes on his father while our lawyer, Denise Okafor, held up a single printed page. “Your Honor, this is a text message sent by the …
The Text in Dayton Read MoreNana Pearl Recipe Box
My husband, Dennis, held up an old brown shoebox so the whole crowd could see it, and the chatter on Peach Street went quiet. “Kelsey,” he said, “you told everyone …
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Travis stopped halfway to the table, one hand still raised in a wave. My husband, Glen, did not stand up. Across from him sat Sergeant Dana Pruitt of the Fargo …
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The clinic was a low brick building on Orchard Road in Ashland, Ohio, with a hand painted sign of a cat and a dog sharing one umbrella. The vet who …
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The address was a yellow house on Harlan Street in Kearney, Nebraska, three hours from our farm. I parked across the road and sat with the engine off for twenty …
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By noon I had called eleven names from the boxes, and by evening I understood the size of what my brother Walter Hendry had built. His spare bedroom in Altoona …
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I stared at the photograph until the pawn shop owner, whose name tag said Ray, slid a stool behind me. On the back, in the handwriting of Helga, were the …
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