when George was alive. He always said he’d fix it someday.
There. Straight.
The young woman in the white dress smiled down at me.
I smiled back.
Then I walked out into the June heat in my dirty boots and George’s old hat and went home to finish the tomatoes.
Ezoic
Richard Hale arrived at my house at one-forty.
He was sixty-two, maybe. Tall. Silver hair. A gray suit that probably cost more than my first car. He’d driven himself. A big black sedan that looked ridiculous parked in front of my little yellow house.
He wasn’t alone.
Brandon Pierce






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