The Copper Pipe
The face in the passenger seat of the truck of Doug belonged to Marv Dunning, the man who had run the yard at Kowalski Plumbing Supply for twenty two years. …
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The Walk In Cooler
The inspector had found eleven cases of Gulf shrimp stacked on the top shelf of the walk in cooler, the date stickers scraped off and new ones glued over the …
The Walk In Cooler Read MoreThe Church Ledger
The man with the briefcase was Wallace Tidwell. I knew him the moment he set his tea glass down, though his hair had gone from black to silver and his …
The Church Ledger Read MoreThe Scholarship Folder
The dean closed the door of her office and put a box of tissues on the table between us, and I understood that Dr. Ruth Okonkwo was a woman who …
The Scholarship Folder Read MoreThe Safe Deposit Box
I did not follow Todd out the side door. Forty years of selling work boots to Iowa farmers will teach a man to wait for the customer to come back, …
The Safe Deposit Box Read MoreThe Bell Collar
I drove to Salina that same afternoon, two hundred miles of Kansas wheat stubble and a sky as wide as a church, and I did not turn on the radio …
The Bell Collar Read MoreThe Brown Package
I read the first page of the notebook on the porch step in my bathrobe, in the cold, with the key in my left hand. In 1986, Frank wrote, Patrolman …
The Brown Package Read MoreThe Santa Fe Account
Mr. Vigil said the name over the telephone slowly, as a man says the name of a person he has not seen in forty years and is not sure he …
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The car door slammed again, and then the front door, and I turned in the dim hallway with the paper of the corkboard still in my hand. It was Dana. …
The Hallway Corkboard Read MoreThe Tarp Boathouse
I did not stop to finish my hot dog. I climbed down into the bass boat of Buck Tolliver with my knees complaining, and he cut the motor and let …
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