The Grinder's Witness
Sabine had been in Ahaura exactly two days, which was long enough to learn that her daughter's village had one bar and that the bar was…
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Sabine had been in Ahaura exactly two days, which was long enough to learn that her daughter's village had one bar and that the bar was…
I still think about that doorbell.
The train from Visp climbs into the mountains like it can't decide whether it wants to make it, and I spend the whole ride refreshing the…
The pie auction wrapped up at ten forty and by eleven Bev and I had the last of the money counted, boxed, and signed off on, three hundred…
Zara here, thirty-nine, and I'll get Aaron's age in there soon so nobody has to do math later.
The lantern went lit at the mountain lodge at nine sharp, and Lexie Hooper was ready before the old man finished the blessing.
The text I sent at 9:40 on a Tuesday night was, in hindsight, pretty forward.
My mother's family came over from Jamaica in nineteen fifty-something, and I've told that story so many times I could do it in my sleep.
Alana woke up with a dead arm and pine needles everywhere.
My cousin Sara got married on a Saturday in October, and somehow I ended up being the one who stayed behind to watch the lodge.
The fall happened on a Tuesday.
The fryer alarm went off for the fourth time that night and I swear I felt it in my teeth.
The last job I lost was at a bistro in the city.
I sat on the edge of my own exam chair in Andre's oversized scrubs and tried to piece together how we had ended up here.
I park the truck at the far end of the dirt lot and sit there a minute, watching myself in the mirror.
The rain came down all at once, like somebody up there dumped a bucket, and I stomped across the yard to the little hut at the edge of the…
I drove out to Hendricks Field on a Tuesday in July, the kind of heat that made the dashboard vents feel useless.
I've been married to Regina for six years.
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…
The ship lurches onto the salt at nine in the morning and nobody tells you how loud it is.
Rain Vignette, Logic of Willow, Cypress Ledger, The Honey Wanderer
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