The Pawn Ticket
The woman who had signed the logbook at the pawn shop on Brainerd Road came through the kitchen door of the house of my daughter at five in the afternoon …
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The RV Window
The woman who telephoned my bank about my estate was sitting in the passenger seat of the truck of my grandson in the driveway when I came out of the …
The RV Window Read MoreThe Room 14 Call
The woman in Room 14 of Willow Brook Senior Living in Dayton had white hair braided like a girl and a face that looked out the window at nothing, and …
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I came up the basement stairs one slow step at a time, with the gray file box in my arms, and my son Todd stood at the top with the …
The Gray File Box Read MoreThe Wedding Ring Quilt
The quilt on the four poster bed in the master bedroom of the house on Jones Street in Savannah was the Double Wedding Ring quilt that my grandmother had sewn …
The Wedding Ring Quilt Read MoreThe Benefits Letter
The woman behind the desk at the mortuary office in Clinton, Mississippi, looked at me with her mouth open, and then looked at the telephone, and then looked at me …
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The man who stepped out of the yellow taxi in front of my house in Beaumont on the third of December wore a gray prison jacket that was two sizes …
The Prison Letter Read MoreThe Family Tree
The red haired woman at the dinner table in the window of the little brick house in Jenks looked up as I walked across the lawn, and she did not …
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The padlock on the basement door of my house in Fort Smith opened at three in the morning, and the sound of the key in it was a sound I …
The Basement Door Read MoreThe Notary Window
The divorce papers slid across the glass of my notary window at the bank in Shreveport carried my name and my signature, and the woman who had signed them was …
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