The Page Thomas Gave
Thomas kept his hand flat on the page, and nobody at the table moved. The bridge ladies had stopped breathing, and the champagne sat warm in their glasses. Grady had …
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The Back Porch Rocker
The car that came down my gravel road with its headlights off was a dark green sedan with Calcasieu plates, and it rolled to a stop at the foot of …
The Back Porch Rocker Read MoreThe Balancer Patent
The man in the bolo tie was Walter Haskell, and he stepped across my lot with a cane and a canvas satchel, looking not at Dwight but at the bays …
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Pastor Grant held the receiver to his ear and said, in the calm voice that has comforted half of Marshall, “Mr. Dupree, this is Pastor Grant of Greater New Hope. …
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The doctor named on the prescription was Dr. Alvin Mercer, and I knew it the instant I read it, because Alvin Mercer had been the physician of my husband for …
The Glove Box Bag Read MoreThe Porch Next Door
The man on the porch next door set down his can of grape soda and walked across the lawn in no hurry, past the picnic table, past the twenty neighbors, …
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I stood at the top of the cellar stairs in my slippers with the ham radio still warm in my hands, and watched through the kitchen window as the three …
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The man in the camel hair coat was Conrad Mueller, the chief executive of the lighting company, and he held the letter of Gary between two fingers as if it …
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Pastor Willis opened the journal of 2021 at the ribbon, and I saw the old blue ink of my gold nib on the page. The room was my own kitchen, …
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Captain Lorraine Pugh read the list twice, standing in the light of the open cooler door, and then she keyed her radio and asked me to stay on the line. …
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