The Council Folder
The chairman of the town council, Hal Stenson, opened the folder I had placed in front of him and read the first page without a word. Then he read the …
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The Doctor Card
I drove to the clinic on Main Street the next morning in my church dress, with my pocketbook on my lap, and Dr. Thibodeaux met me at the door of …
The Doctor Card Read MoreThe Silver Wings
Officer Jenkins turned his face up to the great painted mural above the checkpoint, high on the curved wall where he had never once looked, and he found the third …
The Silver Wings Read MoreThe Million Mile Pin
Ryder crossed the checkered floor of the diner to the wall behind the register, and the whole room watched him go. He stopped in front of the big framed photograph …
The Million Mile Pin Read MoreThe Glovebox Door
Harold Brandt switched off his little flashlight, lowered the glovebox door to my kitchen table as gently as a sleeping child, and drew a breath. “Mr. Tate, inside this seam, …
The Glovebox Door Read MoreThe Place Behind
The old pastor, who had married Otis and me in 1966, held the white envelope up to the light of the chandelier and read the name on the front to …
The Place Behind Read MoreThe Brass Plate
Conductor Mason walked to the door of the dining car, bent to the small brass plate beside the frame, and read it aloud in the sudden stillness, over the clatter …
The Brass Plate Read MoreThe Mallard Mount
Colt walked across the lodge to the stone fireplace in the hush of the pre dawn, with his four bankers watching and the cook in the kitchen doorway holding a …
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The councilman turned to face the granite wall in the sudden quiet of the Memorial Day crowd, with the microphone still hot on its stand, and he began to run …
The Fourth Panel Read MoreThe Old Photograph
Nurse Jenna walked down the hallway to the framed photograph by the nurses station, a black and white print of twelve young women in fatigues in front of a canvas …
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