The Christmas Lights
Beau Fontaine set down his carving knife and picked up the paper, and the entire dining room, twenty two people in good wool and good pearls, watched his glass of …
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The Lily Pad Frog
Rick turned over the white envelope and read the name printed in the corner, and then he looked through the kitchen window at the green plastic tackle box on the …
The Lily Pad Frog Read MoreThe Hayride Bale
I had a tractor, a wagon of forty children in costume, and a bale of straw under me when Dwayne found me at the edge of the pumpkin field. Dwayne …
The Hayride Bale Read MoreThe Donut Box
Lisa opened the envelope at the kitchen table, on a red checked cloth, beside a pink box from the donut shop in Cedar Falls that she had set down on …
The Donut Box Read MoreThe Grandstand Bolt
Lupe arrived at the rodeo grounds at noon with a long white envelope and a face like a closed gate. Lupe is sixty, my yard foreman, a short, solid man …
The Grandstand Bolt Read MoreThe Pancake Mix
Ashley opened the envelope on the hood of her minivan in the parking lot of the Elks Lodge, between a box of pancake mix she had bought for the fundraiser …
The Pancake Mix Read MoreThe Ice Auger
I was kneeling on the ice with the hand auger when Pierre came walking across the lake in his insulated coveralls, a long, careful walk, with his hands in his …
The Ice Auger Read MoreThe Postcard Magnet
Tracy opened the envelope at her own kitchen counter, with the dishwasher running and a pot of chili ticking on the stove, and I stood by the refrigerator where a …
The Postcard Magnet Read MoreThe Folding Chair
Cliff came up the church lawn at a quick, heavy trot, in his work boots and his orange vest, and he stopped in front of the stage where Dennis Hoover …
The Folding Chair Read MoreThe Biscuit Can
Kayla opened the envelope at the long table in the fellowship hall of Friendship Baptist, between the deviled eggs and the peach cobbler, with a can of biscuits in front …
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