The Coffee Can
Ethan answered before I could. He put a hand on my shoulder, the way he used to on those nights at two in the morning when we had finished the …
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The Corner Unit
I did not answer any of the ninety seven missed calls. I stood on the balcony of my new condo, in the dark, with a cup of tea going cold …
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I did not answer any of the one hundred and two missed calls. I stood on the porch of a rented cabin at the rim of the canyon at dusk, …
The Grand Canyon Read MoreThe Student ID
I did not answer any of the forty four missed calls. I sat in the parked car outside the community college with my mother, who was holding her new student …
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I did not answer any of the ninety one missed calls. I looked at the message of my father again, in the light of the studio parking lot, with Rachel …
The Gold Frame Read MoreThe Stuffed Lion
I did not answer any of the fifty eight missed calls. I sat in the arcade parking lot with a sleeping seven year old and a giant stuffed lion in …
The Stuffed Lion Read MoreThe Sapphire Ring
I did not answer any of the seventy nine missed calls. I called the family lawyer, Mr. Whitcomb, from the parking lot of the jewelry store, with Martha beside me …
The Sapphire Ring Read MoreThe Vault Wall
I set my pry bar down real slow, because what my light revealed behind the last rack was not a hiding place for something dangerous. It was a room. A …
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I set my sledge down real slow, because what the dust showed me when it cleared was not the shape I had braced for. It was a box. A small, …
The Pump Island Read MoreThe Tube Line
I set my cutters down real slow, because the box that I had opened behind the dead tube was not full of the dark thing I had been bracing for. …
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