The Telehandler
Mr. Pankratz held the page under the bar light and read it as slowly as a man reading a sentence handed down by a judge. When he reached the bottom, …
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The Drill Rig
Mr. Whitfield read the paper again, and then he handed it to his wife, who read it, and then she handed it to the pastor, who happened to be standing …
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Don Ortega read the page with his glasses pushed up onto his forehead, and then with them pulled down, and then without them at all, holding the paper at the …
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Hank took the paper from his own sister in law, tilted it toward the bonfire, and read it with his lips moving. For a man who had spent forty years …
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Carmine, the brother of Donna, held the paper under the light of the Christmas tree and read it twice. He is a big man, a former linebacker, with a face …
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I let Mr. Vickers read it a second time. He was a big man in a pressed shirt with a Crown Royal glass in his hand, a man who had …
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Kaylee wiped the last of the flour off the envelope with her thumb and read the name printed on the front. Then she pulled out the contract. The company was …
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Corey turned the envelope over in his hands, and read the return address a second time under his breath. Then he drew out the contract. The paper was heavy and …
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Jessica turned the blue envelope over twice, and then she opened it. The letterhead was cream colored and expensive. Beneath it, in small type, I read the name of a …
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Scott read the logo in the corner of the envelope, then looked up at his wife, then looked down again. He drew out the contract with the care of a …
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