Through These Walls
I came through the apartment door with both hands full of groceries and my elbow trying to work the deadbolt behind me, which is a skill I…
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41 42 The Coral Museum Spectacle
My flight into Kerikeri was forty minutes late and my bag never showed up at all.
43 The Hum
The apartment got real quiet after Maren left for college in September.
44 Gratitude in the Details
The week had been a mess.
45 The Neighbor Below
I'd been a zoning enforcement officer for the city of Oakland for eleven years, and I still got a little kick out of writing up a citation.
46 The Noise Next Door
I was thirty-four years old, a night-shift nurse with a savings account, a cactus named Dennis, and no interest whatsoever in other…
47 Blood and Stone
The bet happened because of a water stain, if you can believe that.
48 The Last Night Shift
Two years I'd been renting the same navy uniform from Lucille's shop.
49 Design Flaw
I came home on a Tuesday night to find my sofa had been murdered and replaced with a clone that had been left out in the sun.
50 Solid Lessons
So there I was, thirty-four years old, two years divorced, teaching sculpture out of a rented basement in a loud part of Buenos Aires, and…
51 The Last Night Before
The boxes were winning.
52 The Adjuster's Appetite
The apartment is not what I expected.
53 The Wrong Apartment, Right Mistake
You'd think a guy my age would have figured out by now that delivering groceries to strangers is basically paid loneliness.
54 Bitter View
The client call runs long because the client is an idiot.
55 The Boss's Last Question
Mara had a system for avoiding sex, and she was almost proud of how good she'd gotten at it.
56 The Night Bus Arrangement
I was thirty-four, and I was proud of my life.
57 Salsa Revenge
*This one came from watching bad dancers in a cramped apartment and thinking about how lessons can turn into something else when the walls…
58 Watching Petra
The lock on our bathroom door had been broken for three years, and I had meant to fix it for approximately two years and eleven months of…
59 Binding of Smoke and Fire
The nursery at the top of the Kramer house had once been a storage room for imported silks, and it still smelled faintly of cedar and old…
60 The Rigger and the Laundry Girl
The laundry room at St.
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Juniper Room, Solstice Whisper, Cypress Ledger, Lodge of Sundown
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