The snow started at six-fifteen on a Monday in January, while I was still sitting in my car in the staff lot, watching the flakes come down through the sodium …
Spot 47 and the Fourth-Year Night Nurse Read More
The migration began, as it always did, on the first Saturday in April, with my mother standing on a kitchen chair in her socks and reaching behind the preserves. It …
The Quart Jar on the Third Shelf Read More
At eleven-forty on a Tuesday night in February, Rosa Tillman stood in the back aisle of Palmer’s Market with a spray bottle in one hand and a folded cloth in …
The Empty Ledge in Freezer Three Read More
The key was taped to the inside of a cookie tin, under a folded sheet of stationery that smelled faintly of cedar and horse liniment. My father found it on …
The Locked Harness Room at Dunmore Farm Read More
On the first Saturday of April, I stood in the open garage of 14 Larkin Court with a cardboard box in my arms and tried to decide which of my …
The Tool Shelf on the Pruitt Garage Wall Read More
The roof of Mount Zion Union Church was older than anyone living could remember, and by the second week of September it had started to leak in six places above …
The Musket Balls in the Sanctuary Beam Read More
The sound came at nine-fifteen on a Saturday night in December, a week before Christmas, when the house on Crabapple Lane had gone quiet except for the furnace ticking in …
The Lock on the Guest Room Door Read More
The courthouse clock had been wrong by forty seconds for as long as Owen Mabry had been alive, and he intended to fix it before lunch. It was the last …
The Third Bell at the Tully County Courthouse Read More
The silverware chest sat on the sideboard in my grandmother’s dining room the way it had sat there for seventy years, its walnut lid polished to the color of strong …
The Pewter Spoon Under the False Bottom Read More
The snow had come in the night, the soft, heavy kind that clung to every branch along Mill Road and turned the parking lot of First Congregational of Hollis Ford …
The Overshoes on the Back Steps Read More