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IV. Remains - Part Two

He measured her hands. He couldn't help it. It was Tuesday — four days after the box arrived — and he was kneeling beside it with a flexible rule,...
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Cherry

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...
Cherry

s13ep study

The suburb was a dead giveaway— too many people, too few people, elm trees, a jack-o-lantern on a porch with its mouth caved in. A street that exists...
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Cherry

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 —...
Cherry

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...
Cherry

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...

ALL SYSTEMS GO!!!!!!

All Systems GO! I woke up late this morning, when I opened my eyes, it was 07.24am. I knew I was at work later in the afternoon, and I had a long...

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3. When we send our children to school to make lifelong friends, learn French, German or Spanish. For our children to learn lifelong skills like,...
Cherry

Rehearsel

I found a bone in the yard last week that fit my hand too well. I told myself: coincidence. I told myself: the world is full of things shaped like us...
Cherry

Snap Decision

I find her reading glasses on the counter where she always left them, beside the bowl she used for keys she never found again. I find the knife she...