The Dried Wreath
The woman in the denim jacket introduced herself as Colleen Marsh, the senior buyer for a national craft retailer, and she held one of the dried flower wreaths in both …
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The Silver Trophy
The father of Preston is named Charles Hale, and he is a retired judge of the circuit court, a stooped, courtly man with a cane, who had stood quietly by …
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The father of Heather is a retired Lutheran pastor named Gustav Lindqvist, and he stood with his hat in his hands at the front of the crowd, reading the brass …
The Brine Book Read MoreThe Crayon Cards
Gary was on the third page, and he had stopped chewing. My son in law is a lean, graying man who manages a feed store, and he held the packet …
The Crayon Cards Read MoreThe Slip Number
The father of Nicole is a retired high school principal named Walter Keene, a straight backed man with a white mustache, and he sat across from me at the yacht …
The Slip Number Read MoreThe Parking Cone
I was still holding the orange parking cone when Junior pulled up to the oyster roast in the company truck. Junior is my foreman, a big, red faced man of …
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Jen opened the envelope on the bleachers, between the snow cone stand and the third base line, with a Little League game going on behind her and a boy in …
The Bulldog Keychain Read MoreThe Subaru Key
The father of Hannah is a surveyor named Peter Gagnon, and he reads a deed the way other men read a menu. He sat at the little dining table with …
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The woman in the red coat was named Marian Delacroix, and she introduced herself to my daughter as the director of licensing for the company that makes holiday carving kits. …
The Butter Mold Read MoreThe Tailor Chalk
The father of Tyrell is named Calvin Rhodes, a retired bus supervisor with a deep, unhurried voice, and he had come across the ballroom to stand beside me with a …
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