She is eighty-three years old, has never married, and has spent nearly her entire life in the same red farmhouse at the end of our […]

Chapter One: Six Inches The rain came through on a Thursday night in the middle of May, the kind of storm the Flint Hills get […]

Brody handed me the check through the window of his pickup without shutting off the engine. It was the last Friday in August, a little […]

Walking In As Myself Part One: Seven Times “Mom, does my dress look okay?” “Sweetheart, you’ve asked me six times.” “Seven,” my sister said. “Thank […]

Flat to the Rim They moved Dad from Morehead to Lexington at 7:25 on a Saturday morning in October. I stood in the hallway outside […]

My dad, Gene, is seventy-four. He was a high school shop teacher for thirty-one years. He’s quiet, gentle, and he notices everything. After my mom […]

The envelope was sitting on Mr. Jenkins’s desk when I walked into his office. Plain white. My name written across the front in neat blue […]

Aisle Seven “Mom, Max put a cucumber in his pocket,” Sophie said. “It’s for later!” my five-year-old protested. “Put it back, honey. We have a […]

Nine Hundred Dollars Nine hundred-dollar bills came across the top board of the steer pen. It was the third Saturday in June. Six-thirty in the […]

The invoice was sitting in the wire tray on Clay’s desk, face up, with a ring from his coffee cup drying across the top corner. […]