Carol tossed the jar underhand across the kitchen. “Guess this one’s yours too, Linda.” I caught it with both hands. It was a pint mason jar of plum jam. A […]
At 5:40 in the morning, my phone started buzzing on the nightstand. I picked it up with one eye closed. It was my mother. Victoria, what have you done? The […]
My brother laughed so hard he had to leave the room. It started small, a breath through the nose. Then it grew. He put his hand over his mouth, his […]
Naomi’s hand was an inch from the latch of my side gate when she finally saw the police officer standing beside it. Her fingers froze in midair. They curled, uncurled, […]
At 7:40 on the morning of December 27th, I heard an engine grinding up the gravel. I was standing on the porch of my grandmother’s cabin with a cup of […]
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 […]