The Annual Report
Denise had the paper in her hands, and she read line ten out loud before her husband could stop her. “March the third, twenty twenty three. Nineteen thousand, five hundred …
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The Third Page
Rick read the third page in the kitchen of my own house, and his lips went gray. It was a typed list of eleven names, with a figure beside each …
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I set my sledge down real slow on the sunken front stoop in Grafton, because the top step had rung hollow, and in twenty one years of pouring and tearing …
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I set my shovel down real slow at the edge of the window well in Sistersville, because the thing I had struck was not a drain, and the light was …
The Window Well Vault Read MoreThe Crawlspace Pit
I put my hammer down real slow that afternoon in the crawlspace in Bellaire, as I had said I would, because I could hear someone breathing in the dark behind …
The Crawlspace Pit Read MoreThe Repo Notice
Two weeks after the tow truck backed into our driveway in Lafayette, the telephone of my brother in law rang in the middle of Sunday dinner at the house of …
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On Christmas morning, my father in law Hank came up our front walk in Augusta with a pie in his hands and a smile on his face, and I knew …
The Empty Closet Read MoreThe Garden Wedding
When my sister in law Kendra stepped out of the white limousine at the curb of our house in Tacoma and saw what was standing in our front yard, she …
The Garden Wedding Read MoreThe Thursday Reader
The bookshop on State Street in Madison had a bell over the door that rang sweetly, and I stood under it that Thursday afternoon with my hat in my hand …
The Thursday Reader Read MoreThe Pressed Suits
On the morning the first graduates of the job program were to receive their certificates, I loaded eleven pressed suits into the back of the old sedan of my father …
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