Taste of the Bitter Herb
"You want me to hold your life in my hands?"
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01 02 The Pasta Cutter
I still think about that doorbell.
03 Bellows and Leather
The forge in Easky is dim when I pull up.
04 The Cob Festival Whisper
Zara here, thirty-nine, and I'll get Aaron's age in there soon so nobody has to do math later.
05 The Belay Partner
The text I sent at 9:40 on a Tuesday night was, in hindsight, pretty forward.
06 The Previous Tenant
The bed is too big for the room, and I love it anyway!
07 Monofilament
The place had been a turpentine still once, back when Diamante smelled like money instead of tourists.
08 Oat Wreath Arrangement
I got to the ropeway waiting hall a little before five, carrying a timber receipt in one pocket and a memo pad in the other.
09 The Accordion Wake
I'm Douglas Sanders, thirty-seven years old, and I plan events for a living.
10 The Wrong Terminal
The bus stopped and the driver said, "Terminal Four," and Carson and I just sat there like idiots because that was not our terminal.
11 The Captain's Favor
I'm Astrid.
12 The Captain's Portrait
Selena found him on the port side of the main deck, right after breakfast, leaning on the railing with a coffee cup going cold in one hand.
13 Smoke Signal
The match went off on the first try, which I'd been counting on, because a man who can't light a fire with one strike in front of Nia…
14 The Wrong Table
Tanya Pratt was thirty-two years old and had been fixing pools for eleven years, and in all that time she had never once crashed a wedding…
15 Patina of Want
Delilah Fairchild was fifty-five years old, and she had carried a double boiler across a volcano's doorstep before she had ever carried a…
16 Demolition of the Heart
I was fifty-two years old, divorced almost six months, and I was standing in the gravel driveway of a dead man's house with a clipboard I…
17 Brass Pin Evening
The office closed at five, and by six I was sitting at the bar of The Peat & Fossil with a brass pin in my jacket pocket and news I…
18 The Timing Chain
I have been picking zucchini blossoms at the Warburton station for three years now, and in that time exactly two interesting things have…
19 Too Many Drinks Later
Serena Cannon was forty-one years old, she sold medical devices for a living, and she had promised herself she would get through this…
20 The Signal Station
My name is Bernard Higgins, I'm thirty-four, and for the last nine months my evenings have been mostly nothing.
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