The Rag Rug
Under the pharmacy receipts, at the bottom of the safe deposit box, lay a small canvas pouch tied with a shoelace, and the bank manager stepped back to let me …
The Rag Rug Read MoreAuthor: pologo
The Singer Cabinet
Dennis put his beer down very slowly on the kitchen counter, and he told me what was beneath the rose garden of our mother in a voice I had not …
The Singer Cabinet Read MoreThe Pillowcase
Patrick closed the front door of the old house in Savannah behind him, stood in the hall with the key still in his hand, and looked at the pillowcase on …
The Pillowcase Read MoreThe Wooden Steeple
My father stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun, and he looked at the broken steeple in my hand with an expression I had never seen on his face, …
The Wooden Steeple Read MoreThe Mast Pipe
Joe held the photograph in both hands, standing in the gravel of the boatyard in Annapolis, and he said the thing that I had waited thirty years to hear him …
The Mast Pipe Read MoreThe Trophy Buck
Uncle Gunnar sat on the stone hearth with the old revolver in his hands, and he told me in a shaking voice what he had seen on Burntside Lake on …
The Trophy Buck Read MoreThe Basement Panels
The contractor stepped out of the basement and left me alone with the ammo box, the grocery bag of pill bottles and the spiral notebook of my mother, and I …
The Basement Panels Read MoreThe Plaster Envelopes
My brother Wayne pointed at the amount written on the newest envelope, and I looked, and the floor of my father bedroom seemed to tilt under my feet. It said, …
The Plaster Envelopes Read MoreThe Fourth Stone
Bishop Mayhew drew the fourth stone from the north wall of the churchyard with both hands, and the ivy let go of it with a sound like tearing cloth. He …
The Fourth Stone Read MoreThe Tea Deposit
The white van pulled in through the gate of Simmons Sweet Tea at noon, and nobody on the loading dock moved. It was an unmarked panel van, clean and dull, …
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