The Silver Dollars
The headlights came up the long caliche road one pair after another, three sets in a line, and my daughter Tammy clutched the porch post as though the wind might …
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The Marked Bills
Pastor Jenkins stood in the church parking lot with the passenger door of the truck of my son open and a rolled wad of cash in one hand and a …
The Marked Bills Read MoreThe Folding Cot
I set the folding cot down in the lobby of the Beau Rivage at ten minutes before midnight, and the floor manager, a tall man in a gray suit with …
The Folding Cot Read MoreThe Stable Papers
The black Cadillac with Florida plates rolled slowly up the drive of Hollister Stables at two in the afternoon, past the white fences and the sixty horses grazing in the …
The Stable Papers Read MoreThe Cart Bag
The black SUV came through the gate of the Sandpiper Links at two minutes before noon, exactly as I had told them it would, and it parked across the end …
The Cart Bag Read MoreThe Brass Bell
The bell of my wife Ada was still ringing when the sheriff pulled up at the chained gate of my orchard, and I could not hear one note of it. …
The Brass Bell Read MoreThe Rose Ledger
Beatrice Coleman set a gray accordion file on the potting bench of my greenhouse and unsnapped the clasp, and thirty women of the Tyler Garden Club went quiet among the …
The Rose Ledger Read MoreThe Old Mattress
Officer Tyrell Jackson lifted the corner of the mattress in my old bedroom while Pastor Hensley held the door, and the whole hallway leaned in to look. Under the mattress, …
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The silver Mercedes rolled up to the edge of the pavilion in Ocean City while two hundred Pinders were still holding their paper plates, and a tall man in a …
The Spice Tin Read MoreThe Bell Tower Deed
Chief Marcus Grant read the clause aloud over the radio, standing on the grass below the bell tower, with the deed in both hands and his hat pushed back. The …
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