The Boy Is Out
The man who walked into Ironside Boxing Club at noon was six feet tall, with a shaved head and a quiet walk, and he stopped in the doorway when he …
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Friday Cherry Pie
The letter from the Illinois Department of Corrections said that Clifford Rusk would be released on the thirtieth of October, and that he had listed the house of my mother …
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The woman sat at the table in the station under a gray blanket and told it all in the thin patient voice of someone who has not spoken aloud for …
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Mr. Gutierrez read the rest of the letter of Frank aloud to me at his desk, in a low dry voice, while the loupe lay on the blotter between us …
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The third name on the list that Detective Haugen slid across his desk was Dolores Lindgren. I read it three times before I understood. Dolores was the mother of Greg, …
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Uncle Harlan sat in the shade of the big oak with the blanket on his lap and the microphone from the bingo table now somehow in his hands, and ninety …
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Frank lay in the hospital bed at St. Charles with an IV in his arm and the early light on his face, looking, for the first time in years, exactly …
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Hank Dorsey stood in front of sixty silent guests on the patio with his spatula still in his hand and his gaze fixed on the woman beside Brent Coleridge. She …
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The woman in the gray braid stood in the beam of the deputies lights with an envelope of cash in her hand and her mouth working soundlessly. Opal Thorne. I …
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The name on the tape was Walt Crenshaw, and I sat on the floor of my kitchen with the broken cassette player in my lap and said it out loud …
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