The June I Took My Sister Instead
Kevin told me in March, at my kitchen table, between bites of a pork chop I had fried for him. He said it the way… Read more
Five Thousand Dollars At The Elevator Scale
The last load of Curtis’s corn was rattling down the grates at the elevator in Westbrook a little before eleven on a Wednesday night, and… Read more
The Pontoon Key on a Sparkler
Bill tapped a fork against his can of beer three times, and forty people in my backyard turned toward the grill. The string lights had… Read more
The Graduation Party in the Fire Hall
Brooke had her phone on speaker on the kitchen table, because she was folding Dairy Queen towels from the laundromat and her hands were full…. Read more
The Notice After the Last Beans
The check for the band was the one that did it. Four thousand two hundred dollars, made out to a group from Peoria that played… Read more
The Payment Book Beside the Pie
Steve had just set the carving knife down when Brittany said it. She said it the way people say things they have rehearsed in the… Read more