The Place Card
My nephew Russell arrived at the parking lot of the L Auberge in nine minutes, in his gray Lexus, with his tie off and his collar open. He is a …
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The Wire Transfer
The woman in Davenport was named Brianna Cole, and she was twenty nine years old. I learned it by lunchtime, because a bookkeeper never leaves a number without a name. …
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Chief Hollis held the manila envelope up to the light of the engine, and I could read the handwriting of my husband across the front from where I stood on …
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I pushed open the door of the pawn shop on Harkrider Street with Luis Ortega at my back, and the little bell above it rang as if it were any …
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The elderly woman on my porch was named Gladys Moore, and she was eighty four years old, with a walker, a plastic rain bonnet and a grip on my wrist …
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The young man in the Navy uniform was Samuel Caudill, and every person in my family knew his face. So did every person in Paducah. He was the older brother …
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The initials beside the red X were D.K., and the date was the ninth of July 1971. Every person in my family knew those two letters, because they belonged to …
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The voice on the tape belonged to Sheriff Raymond Dufrene. I knew it before he finished the first word, and so did anybody who ever lived in Jefferson County. For …
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The name of the father on the birth certificate was Dr. Thomas Whitfield. I read it three times by the light of the parlor lamp, with the porcelain doll lying …
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The name circled in red pen on the church bulletin was Dewey Lynch. I had known that name all my life, and so had every soul in Franklin County. Dewey …
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