The Apple Orchard
I put my fork down very slowly. All around us, the wedding went on, the DJ testing the microphone, the busboy clearing plates, the bride across the room in a …
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The Fishing Shack
Captain Reyes turned the ammo box a quarter turn on the table so the Polaroid caught the light. A girl of twenty six, in a white blouse, her hair blowing, …
The Fishing Shack Read MoreThe Grape Soda Plant
Mr. Coleman closed the file on his computer and folded his hands. “Mrs. Jenkins, I have been in banking for thirty years, and I have never seen this. I am …
The Grape Soda Plant Read MoreThe Candied Yams
Gerald Whitfield walked into the dining room of Bradley eleven minutes later in a corduroy coat, with a manila folder under his arm and a napkin still tucked into his …
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I read the margin of that map with a magnifying glass from the kitchen drawer, because my eyes are old, and my German is older. It was the tongue of …
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I did not move from my chair. The glass of Rick Halverson was still ringing on the ballroom floor, and two hundred of my old classmates had gone so quiet …
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Luis did not blink. He turned his phone so the whole lobby could see the screen, and then he walked to the glass door of the branch, turned the brass …
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I did not drop my paper plate. I set it down on the porch rail, folded my napkin, and looked at the old man in the cardigan who had just …
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I drove to the quarry at five in the morning with a thermos of coffee and a shaking heart, and I stood at the lip of the old north pit …
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I opened the door of my car in the sleet in front of the stone house in Lancaster and stood there with my coat open and my good navy dress …
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