The Clark Street Safe
“…I grabbed my coat,” as the saying goes, though I think I also grabbed a banana, a paperback, and my reading glasses, and I locked the door of my two …
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Refused
“…call on a Tuesday,” Ruthie had said, and I could hear the old teasing in her voice, the little sister who used to hide my shoes before church. I gripped …
Refused Read MoreApril 1984
“…the bank statement for my monthly allowance,” I told Ellen Weaver on the telephone that night, “and I think I am about to learn something I do not like.” She …
April 1984 Read MorePage One
“…November 1979,” Pastor Brent said again into the telephone, and the whole fellowship hall held its breath. I stood at the podium with my hand resting on Otis old green …
Page One Read MoreThe Manila Envelope
“…Dale found in his email,” I might say now, though at the time I had no idea what my son was reading on that little glowing screen. I stood beside …
The Manila Envelope Read MoreThe Third Page
“…next to me,” I said again, and my voice carried across the back room of the steakhouse the way it once carried across a gymnasium full of six hundred restless …
The Third Page Read MoreThe Organ Bench
“…Pastor Jim,” I said, and I stood in the doorway of his small study at First Methodist with Carl note in one hand and the navy blue bank book in …
The Organ Bench Read MoreThe Santa Suit
“…the blue ledger shows eighteen thousand dollars withdrawn from the children fund since March,” Walt Kowalski said, and he opened the small book on the kitchen table of the Elks …
The Santa Suit Read MoreThe Photo On The Wall
“…closing date of January fifteenth,” I read aloud from the offer letter, and I turned the page over to see the signature at the bottom, a signature I had watched …
The Photo On The Wall Read MoreThe Corvette Safe
“…the handle moved, and the little door of the safe opened with a soft metallic sigh,” I might have written in my diary that night, if I were a woman …
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