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She Aged Out on a Tuesday
She aged out on a Tuesday. No ceremony. No cake. No one waiting in the…
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She Was Found in a Drainage Ditch Off Route 9, Three Miles From the Nearest House
She was found in a drainage ditch off Route 9, three miles from the nearest…
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The Water Glass
You learn to read rooms when you spend twenty-two years on the job. Not consciously.…
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The Shelter at 4 AM
The shelter smelled like burnt coffee and wet coats. That's the first thing you notice.…
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I Knew Him Before He Said a Word
The hair had gone gray at the temples. The gut he'd always carried was bigger…
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He Was Still Holding His Coffee
That's the thing I keep coming back to. The gas station coffee. This man was…
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The Door Opened at 11:14 AM
I've been in a lot of bridal suites. Bachelorette weekends, morning-of chaos, flower girls crying…
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Eleven Seconds
The National Weather Service will tell you an EF2 tornado moves through a neighborhood in…
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She Almost Didn’t Catch It
Tuesday. 11:40 in the morning. Thirty-two second-graders on the blacktop doing what second-graders do, which…