The Church Lot
Dr. Hartmann received us in his small office above the pharmacy on Main Street in Fredericksburg, at four o clock on a Thursday afternoon, with the blinds half drawn against …
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The Cold Test
The policy that my daughter Linda had spoken of on the telephone, when she thought I was out of earshot, turned out to be a life insurance policy on me. …
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On Monday morning at nine, the man who called himself Dr. Sloan walked into the physical therapy clinic in Duluth carrying a leather bag, and my heart turned over in …
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The key from the handle of the whip of my grandmother opened box twenty two at Central Bank in downtown Lexington, and inside it, wrapped in tissue paper and tied …
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The chief executive of the racing company stood in the middle of the Shelbyville fairgrounds, in the golden light of the evening, with the trophy of my husband Harlan cradled …
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Dennis put his beer down very slowly on the kitchen counter, and he told me what was beneath the rose garden of our mother in a voice I had not …
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Under the pharmacy receipts, at the bottom of the safe deposit box, lay a small canvas pouch tied with a shoelace, and the bank manager stepped back to let me …
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My father stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun, and he looked at the broken steeple in my hand with an expression I had never seen on his face, …
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Patrick closed the front door of the old house in Savannah behind him, stood in the hall with the key still in his hand, and looked at the pillowcase on …
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The contractor stepped out of the basement and left me alone with the ammo box, the grocery bag of pill bottles and the spiral notebook of my mother, and I …
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