Familiar
By SoulFire77
"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to bear."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
- 150 reads
Re∆ision (1)
The shelf brackets had been on the list since October. Dennis had measured the garage wall twice, written the numbers on the back of an envelope, and...
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Re∆ision (2)
Sunday. Dennis made eggs. She heard him in the kitchen before the alarm — the skillet on the burner, the carton opening, the crack of the shell. She...
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Re∆ision (3)
Three-fourteen came and went. Three-eighteen. Three-twenty-one. At three-twenty-three the front door opened and Sadie said, "I'm home." The emphasis...
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Addition (1)
The house on Vetch Lane was eleven thousand dollars more than they could afford. Audrey had done the math twice on the back of a grocery receipt...
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Addition (2)
The second showing was Audrey's idea. On a Tuesday Philip came home from work and Audrey was sitting on the couch with her laptop and a legal pad and...
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Addition (3)
They bought the house on Vetch Lane in March. The closing took eleven days. Audrey handled most of the paperwork — the signatures, the inspections,...
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Reminder (1)
The postcard was in the mailbox between a credit card offer and a flyer for a pizza place that had closed in November. Stuart Kemp pulled all three...
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Reminder (2)
He went back on Thursday. Not the next Thursday. The Thursday after that. Eleven days in which the taste of the champagne resurfaced three times —...
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Reminder (3)
The convergence happened on a Tuesday. Stuart knew it was a Tuesday because the turkey sandwich was on the counter, half-eaten, the bread going stale...
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