The 1888 Deed
Delphine put her thin hand over mine on the kitchen table, and we sat for a long time without saying anything, two old women with a cold pot of coffee …
The 1888 Deed Read MoreAuthor: pologo
The Membership Screen
Tom Becker turned the monitor all the way around so I could read it without my glasses. The membership of Desert Ridge Country Club, number 4471, was in the name …
The Membership Screen Read MoreThe Kids Table
Eddie Kaminski sat in the little wooden chair with his cane between his knees, and for a minute neither of us could say a word, two old men at a …
The Kids Table Read MoreThe Sealed Case File
Lorraine Tillis was sitting on my front steps when I came up the walk, in her good blue suit and her county badge, with a banker box in her lap …
The Sealed Case File Read MoreThe Blue Pin Sticker
I read the letter of Irene standing in the church hallway under a framed picture of Martin Luther, with Pastor Lindgren beside me and the smell of frying perch drifting …
The Blue Pin Sticker Read MoreThe Medical Bills Page
I read the message twice at the kitchen table of my little house at the back of the Shady Hollow park, and then I read it a third time with …
The Medical Bills Page Read MoreThe Olive Garden Card
I sat in my kitchen with the quitclaim deed spread on the table under the lamp, and I read it the way I had read ten thousand of them in …
The Olive Garden Card Read MoreThe Emerald Earrings
The band went silent in the middle of a bar. Two hundred guests turned toward the little woman in the green silk dress, holding a pair of emerald earrings in …
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The flashlight swung from my face to the floor and back again, and I held very still on my air mattress, in my nightgown, with my fingers around the hem …
The Air Mattress Read MoreThe Red Pontiac
I put the wrecker in park in the street in front of the house of my son, because he had gotten out of the Malibu and was standing in the …
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