The Closet Camera
The name on the screen was Colleen. My own daughter, the mother of Brody, living in Boise with a husband who sells trucks. I had known that name for fifty …
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The Silver Acorn
Miss Adair did not answer my question about the land. Instead she held out her wrinkled hand and said, “May I?” I lifted the leather cord over my head. She …
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I stood on the gravel in my sock feet and opened the folder. The first sheet was the sale of Quarles Country RV, my own name and the number I …
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The first line said Notice to Quit Possession. The second line said the first of the month. The third line held the word I had only heard on television, eviction. …
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Father Kilbride reached into the pocket of his white vestment and brought out a small brown envelope, soft with age. I walked up the aisle of St. Brendan with every …
The Pillar Pew Read MoreThe White Envelope
Inside the white envelope were three things. A page printed off the home computer of Curtis, titled Durable Power of Attorney, with my name typed in and the signature line …
The White Envelope Read MoreThe Frame 112
Frame 112 showed a man in a tan coat holding a stapled paper, and my son leaning toward him with his hand out. Shauna had enlarged it on a big …
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“It was a ring,” the woman in the yellow raincoat said. “A gold wedding band, wrapped in oilskin. My uncle carried it in his coat pocket the night the Annie …
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“Eleven point two is my business, Hollis,” I told him. “And I think I know how she saw it.” I did not sleep that night. At dawn I called Priya, …
The Dads Budget Read MoreThe Declined Card
“The man in the black SUV is an attorney named Gerald Voss,” Andre said, “and the place on the Causeway is Bayside Haven, a memory care home. Russell wanted to …
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