The Pawn Ticket
Tanner did not answer his bride. He stood in the middle of the lodge in his rented tuxedo, with a world champion bull rider holding the hand of his grandmother, …
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The Green Envelope
I slid the envelope across the cloth to the father of Kelly, who is named Raymond, and watched him open it with the care of a man defusing a bomb. …
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Lisa held the third page up to the lamp, and her hand began to shake so hard that the paper rattled. “Geneva Uniform Company,” she read. “Purchase price: seven million, …
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Dale Patterson read the page twice, the second time with his lips moving, the way a man reads when he hopes the letters will rearrange. Behind him, the tent had …
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Crystal slid the contract halfway out of the envelope, and I watched her lips move over the number. “Six million, four hundred thousand dollars,” she said. She looked at the …
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Dr. Hendricks read the page twice, and then he took off his reading glasses and folded them, which is what he does when he is trying not to show a …
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Brian read the first page of the contract standing up, with his reading glasses pushed onto his forehead, and when he reached the bottom he took the glasses off and …
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Wade Whitaker was still standing on the stage with the microphone in his hand, and his father was holding the paper, and I stood between the cake and the dance …
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Jen lifted the flap of the white envelope and slid out the contract, and as she read, I saw her free hand drift to her throat. “Kansas Bread and Butter,” …
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Tasha opened the envelope slowly, and drew out the contract, and I watched her eyes go down the first page and stop. She read the number twice. She put her …
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