The Magnolia Brooch
Hattie Robichaux caught me under both arms before I reached the floor, and she half carried me to a folding chair behind the coat rack, where the cold from the …
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The Witness Line
Deputy Hollis laid the loan paper on my kitchen table next to a plate of my cold biscuits and put one finger on the witness line. “Mr. Whitaker, I need …
The Witness Line Read MoreThe Black Armbands
I sat in the parked car outside Leon Haynes Field with the program on my lap and the logo staring up at me, a green oak tree with the letters …
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I sat in the Tahoe with a child on each side and the engine off, and I did what I did for thirty years of nights on the radio. I …
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Father Mike Dolan picked up on the second ring, as though he had been sitting beside the telephone for six years. “Bernie,” he said. “Who said the name?” I told …
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Brent put his face in his hands, and I let the silence work, the way I did at the back of a classroom when a boy was deciding whether to …
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Jordan did not leave me alone with the paper. He brought a cup of bank coffee in a Styrofoam cup, set it beside the statement and said, “Mr. Brandt, the …
The Gold Cufflinks Read MoreThe Safe Deposit Key
I did not tell my family. At nine the next morning I parked the old Silverado behind the Oro Valley branch, walked to the side door and knocked twice, and …
The Safe Deposit Key Read MoreThe Blue Bass Boat
I held out the sticky note and read the name aloud. The man on the dock took off his cap and let out a long breath, the sound of someone …
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I did not go to church on Tuesday. I put on the red suit, the real one, with the wide black belt and the bell that Ingrid sewed on the …
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