The Torn Boarding Pass
The man in the blue blazer stood close and kept his voice low, so that Kendra could not hear him over the roar of the jets outside the glass. “Mrs. …
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The Tackle Box
The woman who opened the screen door of the cabin was not the woman I had been picturing for forty minutes on Highway 7. She was sixty two, heavyset, in …
The Tackle Box Read MoreThe Teller Window
The man in my Stetson turned toward the door of the bank, and the camera caught his face for half a second, and I knew it. I am Vernon Gaines, …
The Teller Window Read MoreThe Voicemail
Ashley mouthed two words across that ballroom, and I read them as plainly as if she had shouted. Trust me. Then she lifted one white sleeved arm and pointed past …
The Voicemail Read MoreThe Cattle Trailers
The cattle buyer took off his hat and held it against his chest, a tall, weathered man in a canvas jacket named Clay Burris, and he said in a voice …
The Cattle Trailers Read MoreThe Caddie Bib
Harold Briggs kept his hand on my shoulder, and in front of the whole foursome he said, clearly, “Blake, this man is Vernon Pettis. He built Pettis Carts from a …
The Caddie Bib Read MoreThe Tuesday Calendar
At 6:45 that night, Lyle drove me to a low brick building on the east side of Kokomo, with a flower garden out front and a sign that read Garden …
The Tuesday Calendar Read MoreThe Second Checkbook
Doug stood in the doorway of the room with a coffee cup in each hand, and the steam rose between us like a curtain. He set the cups down on …
The Second Checkbook Read MoreThe Building Fund
The name on the last check from the building fund was Felicia Ransom Ross, in the careful hand of the church treasurer, with the amount of sixty two thousand dollars …
The Building Fund Read MoreThe Pink Scarf
The man in the suit was Tom Cavanaugh, and I had last seen that face forty years earlier, across a workbench in my first metal building off Highway 65, a …
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