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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
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The Invoice on the Dashboard of a 1974 GTO
Marlene Cobb had exactly four hundred dollars left in her checking account and a half-restored Pontiac
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Grocery Run on Route 9 That Ilan Couldn’t Finish
My name is Ilan Marsh, I'm thirty-four, and until six weeks ago I never once thought about who was
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The Dog Who Saved the Inheritance
Marlene Brandt stood with the lawyer's letter in her hand in front of the hallway mirror, the lines
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Forty Orchids for Diane Kowalski
The house sat at the edge of Millbrook, right off Route 9 toward Poughkeepsie, and every day the school