Where the Rest Went
Cole looked at the floor of the porch of his mother-in-law and said it in a flat voice. “Three thousand seven hundred dollars. I put it down on a trailer. …
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Feed Sack Cloth
Wayne sat in the lawn chair he had knocked over, and he stared at his own hands. For forty years I had watched my husband hand things to his sister: …
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Sandra stood with her hands on the edge of the table as though the ground might tilt. For a moment I thought she would deny it, as people do. Then …
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Roy stepped into the gate before my husband could reach it and put one hand flat against the post. “Sit down, Hal,” he said. He had known his younger brother …
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Brooke pressed both hands against her belly and the words came out of her in a rush, the way water comes through a crack in a dam. In May she …
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Hannah pried the little gold locket open with her thumbnail, and she held it up in the light of the late afternoon so that everyone close to her could see. …
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“What money, Courtney?” Ryan asked again, and this time nobody looked away. He owned a small tire and brake shop on the east side of Peoria, which he had built …
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Nobody in that living room said a word, so I said the first thing that came into my head, which was to ask Brianna whether she would like to sit …
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Marlene folded her hands on the tablecloth as though she were about to pray. “It was the third week of May,” she said. “Courtney came to my apartment with a …
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The name under that message was Connie. Not a stranger, not a rival, but the woman who had sat at my table every Thanksgiving for forty years and called me …
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