Stories tagged “request”
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Brotherly Request
I considered my brother from across the diner table, nigh on forty years and still as cherubic as ever. My coffee, black and utilitarian, looked like tar compared to the creamy bastardization of brew he was happily stirring. “Billy,” he sai...
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Oblivion Come At Last
The voice from my throat growled above the clamor of my brother’s 78 Skylark, “You said women?” “Yeah, Billy, lots of women, just across the bridge in Vicksburg. You know, that little brothel the sheriff runs.” “Name...
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Changes in the Air
Dennis Larson rinsed the rest of the shaving lather away and really looked at himself for the first time in a long time. Deep lines creased across his face, like furrows in the farmland of his youth. Another time, another place. His wife said that it d...