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Curbside Service on Maple Street
Barbara Kowalski was forty-nine when she finally understood that the garage on Maple Street in Toledo
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The Bartender Who Wouldn’t Chase
Nobody in Nashville believed Dean Ashford when he said he'd stopped looking for love. At thirty-four, he'
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The Ledger at Hartwell Auto
Marianne Cobb smelled the coffee before she saw the man pouring it — burnt, the kind you get when the pot'
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The Sticks by the Trailhead in Millbrook
Forty-one wooden walking sticks. That's how many Dana Ferris counted the morning she decided to
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The Overnight Shift at Fairview Pediatrics
I've been a receptionist at a pediatric clinic in Dayton, Ohio for eleven years, and I can usually
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Grease Under Her Nails, and a Mother Who Only Saw Skinny
A dog barked twice behind the fence before Marlene Tutwiler even heard the truck pull up. She wiped her
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The Line That Carries Everything But People
Ray Delacroix has driven a rig for BNSF out of Barstow for nineteen years, and he still remembers the
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The Garage After Frank
Renata Kowalski was pouring coffee into a chipped mug when she heard the screen door slam. Outside, in
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Dad on the Floor in Dayton
A November morning, a silver-gray Buick parked in the driveway, hadn't moved in three days because
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Flour and a Fresh Start on Magnolia Street
My name is Dorothy Halloran. I'm seventy-four, and my whole world got turned upside down the day