The Subaru Key
The father of Hannah is a surveyor named Peter Gagnon, and he reads a deed the way other men read a menu. He sat at the little dining table with …
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The Hull Mold
The father of Lauren is named Harold Voss, a retired Gulf pilot with a weathered neck and a gentle manner, and he held the paper from the display table up …
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The father of Tyrell is named Calvin Rhodes, a retired bus supervisor with a deep, unhurried voice, and he had come across the ballroom to stand beside me with a …
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The father of Jessica is a retired county judge named Arvid Nelson, a tall, courtly man with white hair, and he nodded at the envelope lying by my plate. “Gunther,” …
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Mark was reading the third page of the packet, and he had stopped moving. He is forty six, a tall, mild man who sells irrigation equipment, and he held the …
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The grease in the fry basket was still hissing when the truck of Junior came up the lane. Junior is my yard foreman, sixty two, a lean man with a …
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The white envelope was still in my hand when Kiara reached for it. We stood in the fellowship hall of Mount Zion Baptist, with the Sunday ham and the sweet …
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Ray Archuleta set his glass of tequila on the table very carefully, as if it might shatter. Under the white tent the mariachis had lowered their guitars, and two hundred …
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Jasmine read the letter in the corner of the envelope, then pulled the contract out and held it with both hands. “Seven million, one hundred thousand dollars,” she said. She …
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The father of Madison is named Cole Brannigan, and he runs a bourbon tasting room in Bardstown that draws forty thousand visitors a year, and he knows iron when he …
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