Stories
The Envelope Sat Under the Bread Basket Four Hours Before Anybody Touched It
NINETEEN MONTHS with a man, and I still hadn't met the kid who slept down…
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The Rope on That Crate Was Tied the Way Maureen Tied Everything
SIX YEARS and one month since my stepdaughter last said a word to me, and…
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The Bank Two Towns Over Had My Name On It Before I Ever Walked In
"It's a bedroom, not a kidney. Let her have the water side." Gerald said it…
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His Mother Sold Her Condo In August And Nobody Told Me
Four suitcases were already standing in my living room when I came down the stairs.…
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I Rented My First Floor Buffer by the Week From a Lot Behind the Hardware Store
For NINE YEARS my family told people I mopped office buildings after hours. They were…
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The Barn Drawer Held a Phone Older Than My Son’s Last School Photo
The soil over my parents was still loose when my husband pressed a manila envelope…
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He Sold the Welder That Kept Him Warm, and Twenty Years Later He Came Back for Twelve Hundred
He stood on my porch holding his cap in both hands and asked me for…
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The Bicycle Was Still in the Truck Bed When My Mother’s Chair Went Over
I came home from the war with ONE LEG and a folder of exercises. Twenty-six,…
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There Is A Woman On That Phone Who Says My Name At Second Forty
An hour before I married her father, his daughter pressed her mother's OLD FLIP PHONE…
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I Sent One Hundred And Forty-Eight Dollars A Month For Her Scooter
The finance company called my desk at ten past nine to tell me the note…
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I Waited Seventeen Minutes in the Lot With His Jacket on the Back Seat
Fourteen years together and not one of them inside a church, and then my husband…
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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…