“Hide it among the stone chests where our fathers lie,” she says. “Until you can find it again.”
Tag: Literary Fiction
The Shape of What Remains
She arrived first and chose the last booth, her back to the wall. From here she could see the entrance. A server approached and set down a cocktail menu. She glanced at it then pushed it away. The two bands on her finger glimmered in the low light . She […]
An Idyllic Quarantine
With everything going on, the cabin just made sense. It seemed practical— or tactical, given the circumstances: remote, but not isolated, perched on a wooded slope in the north Georgia mountains where the closest town had a stable population of less than a thousand. Accessible well water, a generator and […]
Found Light
“Is this actually the original?” Mrs. LaPointe asked Jonah the same question everyone eventually did. She held the photograph carefully, as if it might crumble. A black-and-white print, 8×10, the edges soft from age. It showed a man standing under a carport, hat in hand. The 1957 Mercedes Roadster behind […]