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Those pants showed up in our apartment on a Wednesday. My mother came home from work with a package wrapped

I do the books for a small property management outfit in Tulsa, Oklahoma — three duplexes, a strip mall

It started on a Thursday, a quarter past four in the afternoon. I'd scrubbed the kitchen down to

I've worked the front desk at the St. Mary's branch of First Coast Credit Union for nine years

The bucket clattered onto the concrete. A few hundred brass casings scattered across lane four.

The linoleum floor at St. Agnes Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio, smelled like bleach and burnt coffee

Three weeks before that pool party, I'd shattered my ankle in two places falling off a stepladder

I've been the closing shift clerk at the Fuel Mart off Route 20 outside Toledo for eleven years

She's not my mom, sweetheart. She's my wife, Elena. She died six years ago. The girl didn'

My name is Walt Krensky, I'm fifty-one, and for eleven years I ran the parts counter at a Case IH