The Medical Bills Page
I read the message twice at the kitchen table of my little house at the back of the Shady Hollow park, and then I read it a third time with …
The Medical Bills Page Read MoreAuthor: pologo
The Olive Garden Card
I sat in my kitchen with the quitclaim deed spread on the table under the lamp, and I read it the way I had read ten thousand of them in …
The Olive Garden Card Read MoreThe Emerald Earrings
The band went silent in the middle of a bar. Two hundred guests turned toward the little woman in the green silk dress, holding a pair of emerald earrings in …
The Emerald Earrings Read MoreThe Air Mattress
The flashlight swung from my face to the floor and back again, and I held very still on my air mattress, in my nightgown, with my fingers around the hem …
The Air Mattress Read MoreThe Red Pontiac
I put the wrecker in park in the street in front of the house of my son, because he had gotten out of the Malibu and was standing in the …
The Red Pontiac Read MoreThe White Sneakers
I looked at the face on the monitor, and the face looked back at me from a photograph taken at a check in desk, and I said her name out …
The White Sneakers Read MoreThe Red Toolbox
I did not drop the yellow paper. I folded it twice and put it in the pocket of my cardigan, and I put one hand on my walker and the …
The Red Toolbox Read MoreThe Navy Jacket
I knew the face. My body knew it before my mind did, because my hands went cold and my knee began to shake the way it had in the ditch …
The Navy Jacket Read MoreThe Diner Cash
I did not go to the diner the next morning. I sat on the edge of my bed in my robe with the letter from the Department of Corrections in …
The Diner Cash Read MoreThe Old Tugboat
I did not move. I stood at the back of the room by the coat rack, holding my glass of wine, and I watched Jim Kessler hold his champagne in …
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