Category: Comeback

I was gone from my own kitchen for fifteen minutes. That is all it took. Fifteen minutes to walk down County Road 12 to the… Read more

I have replayed that meeting so many times I could recite it like a scripture I never wanted to memorize. Walter Hargrove behind his father’s… Read more

My name is Arlene, and I am sixty-eight years old. For forty-one years I was married to a man named Roy who could fix anything… Read more

My name is Judy Hargrove, and I am seventy four years old. I have lived in Cedar Bend, Iowa my whole life, in a town… Read more

For twenty two years I have gone to work every morning at the same brick building on Main Street in Cedar Bend, the one with… Read more

I have poured coffee at the Wagon Wheel Diner on Route 9 outside Millhaven for twenty-two years, and in all that time I never once… Read more