The Garage Cot
Mrs. Ochoa went out to the garage with a flashlight, because I could not make myself go back in there. She came out with a manila folder she had found …
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The Porch Light
The porch light was an old yellow bulb in a cage, swarming with moths. A man stepped out from behind the screen door and stood at the top of the …
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Room 112 was at the end of a long, quiet hall with a bulletin board of paper snowflakes. The door was half open. A radio was playing low, a ball …
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We came down through the clouds over the Chugach Mountains, and the whole world turned white and then blue. I had never seen mountains like that, jagged and enormous, hung …
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Somebody was already waiting at the grave, as I told you. It was a very old woman in a wheelchair, parked on the path below the stone, with a plaid …
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The mailbox said Carthage Rural Route 4, with no name. The gravel road ran between two cornfields gone brown with the autumn, and at the end of it stood a …
Ranger Read MoreThe Blue Box
The post office in Redmond is a low tan building on Fifth Street. I parked across from it at nine in the morning on Thursday and sat with a thermos …
The Blue Box Read MoreBehind the Shed
The key fit the lock of the back gate on the first try. I stood at the edge of the driveway at number 9 Pecan Street with the key still …
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At eleven thirty eight, the kitchen was dark except for the small light over the stove. I sat at the table in my robe with the tablet propped against the …
The Blue Dot Read MoreTuesday at Six
Hector pulled the cab up to the curb outside the county jail at six fifteen in the morning. It was dark yet, with a pink edge to the east, and …
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