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There Was a Tank in the Yard and Nobody Could See It
Somewhere out from the house, under the grass, was a buried concrete box the size of…
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The Shirt Did Not Come With a Collar
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A man's dress shirt was a body with sleeves and a neckband, and nothing above it. The neckband…
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It Started After the First Hard Frost
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Nutting had a season and it was short. The nuts ripen on the tree, and then a hard frost…
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In 1974 every American household had a stack of them against the garage wall: bent aluminum tube, woven plastic strapping in two colors, folding flat to a couple…
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There Was a Hole in the Floor With a Fire Under It
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In the hallway, or where the hall opened into the living room, there was…
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It Sat on the Counter and It Had a Lid That Did Not Seal
There was a box on the kitchen counter, a foot and a half wide,…