The Delivery Room
The woman who gave birth to Savannah in delivery room four on that cold night in December of 1990 was a nineteen year old named Anita Flores, and I had …
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The Back Bedroom
We ran down the hallway of my little house on Monterey Street, the lawyer in his gray suit and I in my slippers, and burst into the back bedroom to …
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I sat in my parked car outside the eye doctor and listened to the voice of my financial advisor tell me that the woman who had answered the telephone number …
The White Disc Read MoreThe Peach Cobbler
The woman at the clothesline told me the name of the bank, and the amount, and then she said the name of the person who signed the checks every month. …
The Peach Cobbler Read MoreThe Jury Box
The judge asked me the question again, slowly, in his chambers, with the old bank envelope of Leroy between us on the desk. How long had my nephew Ronnie been …
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Vanessa Thornwood held the painting high above her head, so that all four hundred guests could read the back of it, and for three seconds the ballroom of the Ritz …
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Diane took my hand in the driveway, in front of the movers, and I let her, because I was too stunned to pull away. I am Gloria Teague, seventy three …
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The treasurer of the board, a soft spoken accountant named Doug Fenwick, looked at his lap for a long time while the clubhouse of Heron Pointe held its breath. I …
The Flag Fine Read MoreThe Background Check
The man in the mug shot was named Dewey Slade, and the old man on my driveway told me his story while I stood in my housecoat with the garden …
The Background Check Read MoreThe Seed Corn Bags
I set the coffee cup down on the windowsill over the sink and watched the man in the Kearney jacket take a ladder off the rack of his truck and …
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