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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

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 ...

The screen door had a habit of banging and he held the handle the whole way out, feeling the spring resist him, and then eased it shut like he was closing a bed...

The jar sat on the counter next to the dish soap while Nora read the Post-it three times. She opened the cheesecloth and smelled something between vinegar and o...