The Stump Guy
Mr. Sumrall turned the page over and back, and I saw the exact moment his face changed. He had been a car salesman before he was a developer, and the …
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The Coffee Can
Sherry unfolded the first page of the contract on top of the torn corner of the quitclaim deed and read it silently, her lips pressed together. I saw the exact …
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Lucien Robichaux read the line a second time with his lips moving, and then he held the paper out at the end of his arm, as if the number might …
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Walter Preston held the paper up to the light of the tent, the way a man holds a hundred dollar bill he suspects of being counterfeit. I watched his eyes …
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Kevin turned the white envelope over in his hands once more, and then he did something that I will remember for the rest of my days. He did not open …
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Royce held the fleet schedule out in front of him and read the bottom of it again, and I watched his lips move over the name that was printed there. …
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Krista slid the contract out of the envelope with two fingers, the way a person lifts a dead mouse by the tail, and she began to read. I watched her …
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The woman in the gray suit set the faded blue cap on the lid of the casket of my grandfather, and the room went quiet in a way I felt …
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The violinist stood at the front of the funeral home, with the case at her feet and the violin under her chin, and she did not play. She looked at …
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The state trooper propped the faded red sign against the casket of my mother, and the whole of the back of it, I saw now, was covered in names. Hundreds …
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