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Daniel had printed the route at 2 p. m. , between the third and fourth meetings, on the office printer that always left a faint gray smear down the left margin....

Dennis's hand was already on the handle before he checked his watch, which read 7:08, which was the same as yesterday. The newspaper under his arm still had its...

Gerald's retirement card from Hendricks Pipe and Fitting sat on the mantel for a month before he turned it face-down. It had forty-one signatures and a

He filled it to the line he'd scratched with a key, not the one printed on the plastic. The scratch was lower. His shoulder had told him about the printed line ...

The Cutlass had a pine tree air freshener that had stopped smelling like pine sometime during the previous administration, just a gray cardboard triangle swingi...

The legal pad already had three crossed-out questions at the top, scratched through so hard the pen had scored the paper. She'd written do you miss me and

He knotted the left lace twice, the extra loop something he'd started doing after the sole caught on a storm drain and nearly put him face-down on Clement Stree...

The lake was already dark at the edges when she set the duffel on the porch boards. She unzipped the front pocket and read her sister's note again, then folded ...

The seats were still cold from the night cleaning. Delia pressed her palm flat against the glass and left a print. She set the thermos between her boots on the ...