The Gold Horseshoe
Miss Callaway set the horseshoe on the Derby party table beside the bowl of mint, and it caught the light from the television like a small gold moon. It was …
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The Hotel Key Card
Mr. Park laid the plastic key card on the white tablecloth in front of Garrett, squared it with one finger, and stepped back to let the card speak for itself. …
The Hotel Key Card Read MoreThe Stop Paddle
Ms. Rhoda held the stop and slow paddle over her head with both hands, and the afternoon light came down through the maple trees and fell across the signatures, hundreds …
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Chef Boudreaux laid the meal ticket on the white tablecloth in front of Richard, and the grease stain on it began to spread slowly into the linen, a brown map …
The Meal Ticket Read MoreThe Orange Vest
Desmond read the number again, with his finger running under the numerals, like a boy reading a menu in a foreign language. He is sixty five, a short, pink, neat …
The Orange Vest Read MoreThe Fruit Basket
Courtney set down the card from the fruit basket and read the name printed in the corner of the white envelope for a third time. My daughter in law is …
The Fruit Basket Read MoreThe 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 …
The Christmas Lights Read MoreThe 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 …
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