The Scholarship Sealed in His Mother’s Bible
By Nadia Cross — My mother kept everything in that Bible. She kept the obituary cards from three funerals, the ones she attended in her… Read more
The Hardware Store He Tried to Steal
At 2:47 that Tuesday afternoon, in the fourteenth week since I broke my pelvis and my hip in my own receiving bay, I stood in… Read more
The Widow Who Asked For Me By Name
It was my twenty eight week checkup, forty minutes before my ultrasound appointment, when Deputy Trace Boone’s cruiser rolled up my gravel driveway instead of… Read more
The Inspection Report That Cleared My Name
Eleven weeks after I watched Lonnie Bratcher’s glove disappear into the jaws of Press Line Three, I sat in a Walmart parking lot in Bremmer,… Read more
The Clerk the Camera Cleared
The morning Colton Ashby decided to ruin me, there were eleven people in line at my register, and he said it loud enough for every… Read more
The Binder My Partner Never Expected
The folder was blue. I want to start there, because everyone always asks me what was in the folder, and the truth is the folder… Read more