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IV. Remains - Part One

The cabinet he was building when Marie died was a white oak sideboard with dovetail joints and a hand-rubbed finish that would take four coats to get...

The Light 5

Was love the solution to our problems? What did that mean, exactly? Was sacrificial love the solution to our problems? What were we sacrificing? Were...
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Bron-22

Continued from Chapter 21: Bron-21 | ABCtales Chris returned with more glasses on a tray. “You know when I ditched the plane in the Pacific – that...
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III. The Body Box - Part Three

The roads got smaller. County to rural. Rural to gravel. The gravel to a dirt track with grass growing in the center strip. The truck barely fit —...
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Bron-21

Continued from Chapter 20: Bron-20 | ABCtales Chris and Geoff were well into their second pints in the front bar of Ye Olde Mitre; it was nearly one...
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III. The Body Box - Part Two

He asked questions. I let him. "How long?" he said. About an hour after I got in. "I don't know." "A week? A month?" "Longer than a month." "How much...
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Watching You, Chapters Thirty-Seven and Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Seven ‘So you’re telling me you’ve no idea.’ Preston stared at Jacobs, then raised his eyes to the ceiling. Absolutely not.’ Jacobs...
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III. The Body Box - Part One

The truck was a Peterbilt and the cab smelled like coffee and diesel and one of those pine tree air fresheners that nobody believes in but everybody...
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The Novel I'll Never Write

Back when I was in my teens, the title justified the means. I never found the time and dove into my novel- “Sojourn Grove”. There’s a place in my...
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The Light 4

I looked at her as she meditated. She was deep within herself like a turtle in a shell. Had she solved the problem of suffering? Could one really go...