The Hull Number
The bank president held the yard inventory in one hand and looked at me over the top of it for a long moment before I answered. His name was Carl …
The Hull Number Read MoreAuthor: pologo
The Equipment List
The old deputy straightened up from the windshield of the white F 250 and walked back across the patio, and nobody at the table said a word. He set the …
The Equipment List Read MoreThe Registration
The mother of Troy held the white envelope on her lap through the whole announcement of the next event, and when the clown in the barrel finished his joke, she …
The Registration Read MoreThe Check 1088
The woman in the Tulsa police sweatshirt did not wait for my answer. She lifted the white envelope off the granite island with two fingers, read the return address, and …
The Check 1088 Read MoreThe Pink Gift Box
The sister of Brooke turned the white envelope over in her hands and read aloud, in a voice that shook a little, the printed words on the front. “Voss Timber, …
The Pink Gift Box Read MoreThe Recorder
I opened the Bible on the windowsill, and a business card slid out onto my palm. It said, Harold Feldman, Attorney at Law, with a downtown Pittsburgh address and a …
The Recorder Read MoreThe Toll Ticket
I stood in my toll booth at Breezewood with the telephone against my ear and the Pennsylvania sun just coming up over the red mountains, and when Detective Russo asked …
The Toll Ticket Read MoreThe Casey Stop
Gary knocked on the glass door of my bus a second time, still smiling, and I did not open it. I am Roy Pettis, sixty four years old, a charter …
The Casey Stop Read MoreThe Teller Window
Kendra leaned across the counter of the teller window with her purse open just enough, and I looked down and saw the orange pill bottle, and a second bottle, and …
The Teller Window Read MoreThe Porcelain Doll
Megan stood in the open doorway of the house of my son in Sylvania with a coffee cup in her hand, and she looked at the old man on the …
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