The Bar Towel
The woman in the Coast Guard dress blues walked to the front of the funeral home with a folded white bar towel held flat in both hands, the way a …
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The Yellow Page
The very old man in the black suit came down the aisle of the little church one slow step at a time, leaning on a cane of dark wood, and …
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The woman with silver hair set the old snare drum on a stand at the front of the funeral home, and for a moment she just looked at it, with …
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The woman in the pink suit stepped out of the black Escalade like a person arriving at a place she had been afraid to find again. She was perhaps sixty, …
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The old woman in her Sunday best walked down the center aisle of the funeral home on the arm of a grown grandson, in a lavender dress with a hat …
The Rusted Key Read MoreThe Shark Hard Hat
The young man in the hard hat set the small hat down on the casket, right beside the big white one that my stepmother had placed there that morning, and …
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The big man in the mine rescue jacket stood at the head of the casket of my grandmother with the old switchboard headset in his hands, the cord wrapped around …
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The man in the gray suit knelt on the carpet of the funeral home with the old wooden shoeshine box in front of him, and for a moment I thought …
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The woman in her forties walked up the wet grass between the folding chairs without looking at the casket. She carried a tire iron wrapped in a grease stained shop …
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The old man in the tuxedo carried the silver dollar on a small velvet pillow, the way a page might carry a crown, and he stopped at the casket of …
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