The Lift Operator's Lesson
The week after Thanksgiving at Snowdrift Lodge is what we call the dead zone.
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The week after Thanksgiving at Snowdrift Lodge is what we call the dead zone.
So here's how I ended up working weekends at a used bookstore at thirty-four years old.
Leah Hodges is twenty-eight years old, and she has decided, somewhere around the fourth pallet of the night shift, that she is the least…
The bunkhouse at Northern Pines smelled like sawdust and floor wax, same as every building up there, and when I walked in with my duffel…
My name is Alanna Mathews, I'm forty-seven years old, and I've been a deckhand on the M.V.
Six cycles.
Okay, so let me tell you about the spider.
My name is Kelly Swan, I'm twenty-eight, and I woke up at five in the morning with my heart already going before my eyes were open.
Mel Rasmussen was thirty-three years old, and she had been sweating through coveralls at county fairs long enough to estimate how many…
Gayle Duffy was thirty-six years old, and she had never in her adult life imagined she would be scrubbing dried acrylic out of a jar of…
Ten years ago I stood in a trailer at a course outside Scottsdale with Jayne, and we both blinked at each other like two people who had…
The email came on a Tuesday and it had the word "synergy" in the first sentence, which is never a good sign.
Dear Garret, Okay, so I have decided to answer your letter the way you answered mine, in writing, from a tower, like a person with a plan.
The last guest left around eleven.
The track is mostly empty by the time I wander back to the pits.
The ferry dock at Broadhaven still had its old-world bones sticking up out of the water, and every time I came down here with a cart of…
I don't sing.
The Crimson Oak sits in the lobby of the Wexford Hotel, which is one of those old hotels that costs too much and smells like money trying…
I want to tell you about the night I stopped being careful at fifty-five years old, and it starts with snow, because of course it does.
The drive took three hours and I spent most of it arguing with myself about whether I even deserved the night off.
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