Stories
The Storage Unit In Waseca Has Been Paid For Since Before I Met Him
Nine weeks after the wedding, in the hallway by the coat closet, a woman I…
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Stories
She Never Let Me Take Her Picture and I Signed Her Papers Anyway
A woman in a good grey coat stood on my porch on a Tuesday and…
Stories
They Packed My Father’s Level In A Box With A Coffee Mug
He slid a flat cardboard box across my desk at 10:12 on a Thursday. It…
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I Came Home Two Hours Early Because A Job In Sable Ridge Moved To Monday
"As of tonight Priscilla and the baby LIVE HERE NOW, and if that's a problem,…
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Five Months After The Papers I Found My Ex-Wife In A Hallway Chair
The fourth floor smelled like floor wax and burnt coffee and whatever they push through…
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My Father Wore a New Suit to Sit in the Second Row
FIVE DAYS BEFORE MY WEDDING, THE VENUE COORDINATOR CALLED TO CONFIRM THAT MY FATHER HAD…
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Where the Butter Knife Came In And She Bought Pears For Five Weeks
My mother is 71. She's up at 5:40 every morning. She presses a blouse like…
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The Three Glasses And Two Put Back
My son read my savings PIN through the bedroom wall at 1:38 in the morning,…
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The 2:40 Out of Duluth and the Nine Words from the Parking Ramp
"Keep them if you want them. They're BAGGAGE while I rebuild." Emmett said it about…
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The Tag On Those Keys Was In My Dead Best Friend’s Handwriting
Colleen and I were bed nine and bed ten in a county group home, and…
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My Mother’s Hands Were Too Small For The Ring In That Bag
My mother, Roberta, 52, raised me by herself after my dad, Harold, died the spring…
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My Grandfather Changed The Back Lock That Winter And Only Gave The Key To Me
We sat across from my grandfather's lawyer at 9:40 on a Tuesday to hear what…