The Red Farmall
Ansel Raab reached into his coat and took out a thin yellow envelope. “Mrs. Kroeger, your husband sent your father one of these every Christmas until Lyman died in 1998. …
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The Logbook
I read the letter standing in the dome, under the open slot, by the light of the red flashlight of Ellis. It was dated November 9, 1986, and it was …
The Logbook Read MoreThe Santa Letters
Bob Lisowski set the little mitten on the folding table between the toy trucks and the rolls of wrapping paper. “Mrs. Dombrowski, my father told me everything, and I drove …
The Santa Letters Read MoreGreen Ledger
The witness in the police report, the man who had sworn on a Bible that he saw Arnie Tschetter running from the burning barn in a pouring rain, was Orrin …
Green Ledger Read MoreThirty One Letters
The letters from Vietnam, the ones that arrived every few months for two years in an envelope with a foreign postmark, were signed Your Danny, and they were written in …
Thirty One Letters Read MoreThe Spare Plot
The note in the rusted tobacco tin, written in pencil on the back of a union receipt, was in the careful, upright printing of Roy, and it was addressed to …
The Spare Plot Read MoreRoll Nine
The man behind the wheel in the fourth print, lit by the yellow glow of the dome light, was Calvin Dutton, who had been the sheriff of Natrona County for …
Roll Nine Read MoreBadge Two Fourteen
“He said he had been waiting forty six years to tell me where the badge of my husband had gone,” said Odessa Malveaux, in the church hat and the pressed …
Badge Two Fourteen Read MoreSlip Twenty Two
“The night my sister drowned,” said Rena Dalton, turning the thin ring on her finger, “a young man named Arlis Pratt dove into the black water three times to bring …
Slip Twenty Two Read MoreThe Red Chair
Wendell Pike told me the rest sitting in his wheelchair in the middle of my garage, with the scorched barber pole across his knees and his thin hands trembling on …
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