The 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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The Dried Wreath
The woman in the denim jacket introduced herself as Colleen Marsh, the senior buyer for a national craft retailer, and she held one of the dried flower wreaths in both …
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The father of Amanda is a retired postal carrier named Stan Dombrowski, and he read the deed the way he once read addresses, with his glasses low on his nose …
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The father of Heather is a retired Lutheran pastor named Gustav Lindqvist, and he stood with his hat in his hands at the front of the crowd, reading the brass …
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The father of Preston is named Charles Hale, and he is a retired judge of the circuit court, a stooped, courtly man with a cane, who had stood quietly by …
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The father of Nicole is a retired high school principal named Walter Keene, a straight backed man with a white mustache, and he sat across from me at the yacht …
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Gary was on the third page, and he had stopped chewing. My son in law is a lean, graying man who manages a feed store, and he held the packet …
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I was still holding the orange parking cone when Junior pulled up to the oyster roast in the company truck. Junior is my foreman, a big, red faced man of …
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Jen opened the envelope on the bleachers, between the snow cone stand and the third base line, with a Little League game going on behind her and a boy in …
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The woman in the red coat was named Marian Delacroix, and she introduced herself to my daughter as the director of licensing for the company that makes holiday carving kits. …
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