Turbine and Tux
The tuxedo hung in my locker like a promise I'd made while slightly drunk on spite.
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The tuxedo hung in my locker like a promise I'd made while slightly drunk on spite.
The gallery was one of those converted bank buildings downtown, all marble and tall windows, and I only went because the archive society…
I've always been a watcher.
My name is Pablo.
The shop was called The Lure, which I always thought was a pun that thought too much of itself.
Jury duty is where people go to feel bad about themselves in a government building.
I have been a bailiff for nineteen years, which is the kind of number you say out loud once and then try not to think about.
Deidre Freeman had been divorced for eleven months.
Vern Baxter had a system.
*This one came from laughing about how even the best-laid plans get tossed when you're that into someone.
I woke up alone in a bed that smelled like somebody else's shampoo, and for about four seconds I lay there feeling pretty good about myself.
I turned 54 in March, and a month later I ended the longest relationship of my life, and I'd been rattling around in my own head ever since.
So there I was, forty-two years old, six months out of a divorce that had cost me more sleep than money, standing in the lobby of Merrick…
Elias Strand was thirty-four years old and he was losing his mind in a beige room.
I turned 26 that Tuesday.
I'm Meera Calhoun, fifty-three years old, and I run four hundred head of cattle on the east side of the county.
Thelma Laurence is thirty-four years old, Black, and she has her life exactly the way she wants it.
Summit Echo, Route of Cinder, Cobalt Ticket, Journal of Laurel
Law office stories, from quick reads to long series.
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