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The Fifty-Dollar Stranger

The Fifty-Dollar Stranger The heavy brass deadbolt sliding into place was a sound that had echoed in my mind every single night for fifteen…

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The Price of Salt

The Price of Salt The air in the Oakwood Cardiac Rehabilitation Center always smelled faintly of bleach and impending grief, a sterile purgatory where…

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The Friday Night Penance

The Friday Night Penance For two agonizing years, the rhythm of my marriage had been dictated by the setting of the Friday sun. Every…

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The Tally Marks in the Dark

The Tally Marks in the Dark “…key to that door?” I whispered, my voice barely carrying over the cheerful din of the church lobby.…

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The Gospel of the Boathouse

The Gospel of the Boathouse The four steep, crumbling concrete steps leading into the sanctuary of Grace Church were a physical manifestation of exclusion.…

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The Sins of the Iron Flue

The Sins of the Iron Flue For forty years, the rusted iron plate bolted over our attic chimney flue was the sole, undisputed mystery…

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The Master of the Hidden Seam

The Master of the Hidden Seam The air in L’Étoile always smelled of cold lilies and old money, a carefully curated atmosphere designed to…