Lot Forty I drove up to buy a stock tank. That is all I went for. A three-hundred-gallon Rubbermaid stock tank for the heifer lot, because the old galvanized one […]
Pen Fourteen Part One: The Parking Lot I found out in a parking lot. It was a Thursday in late October, a little after four in the afternoon. I was […]
Forty Dozen Before Noon Part One: The Coffee Can The receipt was on her kitchen counter. I saw it on a Sunday afternoon in late August, when I stopped by […]
At 12:17 in the morning, the night before my wedding, I was sitting on the edge of a hotel bed in a white robe when I heard my maid of […]
The Checkbook I found it in her checkbook the night I got home. I wasn’t snooping. I want that on the record. It was almost midnight, and Grandma had gone […]
“Six years, Ethan. I can’t keep waiting forever.” He was standing in our bedroom doorway, watching me fold sweaters into a suitcase. It was the big gray suitcase. The one […]
The crack of Derek’s palm against my face echoed through the ballroom like a gunshot. My head snapped sideways with the impact. I tasted blood where my lip caught against […]
Donor 4127 Part One: Two Days My son had been gone for exactly two days when he came home in tears. It was a Thursday evening in late August. I […]
The road home was quiet that evening. I had the windows cracked open about two inches. One hand rested loose on the steering wheel, and I was humming along to […]
The Tally Book Part One: The Sandhills If you’ve never seen the Sandhills of Nebraska, it’s hard to explain them. Twenty thousand square miles of grass-covered dunes, rolling like a […]