Bears
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Extra Innings, Chapter 6 · Delay
Read fullThe radar loop on Rennie's phone ran eight frames and started over. A green smear over Lincoln. A yellow band behind it, and inside the yellow a hard red knot about the size of a…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 5 · Both of Us, Out Loud
Read full"Bud, Pike's back is not right." Lonnie Bright said it in the dugout runway at ten past four on Tuesday, with his reading glasses pushed up on his forehead and a cup of coffee he…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 4 · Russ’s Place
Read full"Fern gets a glass of water every other day, and I mean a glass, not the pitcher," Russ Hardwick said, walking backwards down his own hallway with the keys held up like a game…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 3 · Room 412
Read fullThe bus window showed Rennie a bus. Out past the glass there was Interstate 80 in the dark and Iowa and nothing else, so the window did what a window does after midnight and handed…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 2 · The Read
Read fullThe pen moved along the film like a finger tracing a road on a map. "That's the ligament," Dr. Voss said. "On a healthy elbow it's a dark band, clean at both ends, like a new…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 1 · Opening Day, Pitch Count
Read full"Throw it again," Rennie said. Josiah Teague looked at him over his shoulder, all six-four of him. He was thirty-one, he had thrown a hundred and eighty innings for the big club…
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Ridge Road, Chapter 18 · New Year’s Morning
Read fullWalt went home at ten on New Year's Eve because he had to open the yard office in the morning, holiday or not. He said so twice at the door, with his cane hooked over his arm and…
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Ridge Road, Chapter 17 · Two Doors
Read fullIt sleeted all night, and on Christmas Eve morning the whole of Lewis had a skin of ice on it that shone like a wet plate. Sam came into the kitchen at seven in his socks and found…
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Ridge Road, Chapter 16 · Marlene
Read fullHank brought the flashlight. It was a long black Maglite he kept behind the seat of the Pete, the kind that took four D batteries and could knock a man out, and he carried it…
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Ridge Road, Chapter 15 · Something in the Lot
Read fullThe depot window was the only lit thing in the yard at twenty to seven on Monday morning. Sam saw it from the gate, a yellow square in the dark with Walt's shape in it, and then…
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Ridge Road, Chapter 14 · The Right Side
Read fullSam changed the sheets at three in the afternoon and then changed them again at four, because the first time he'd put the fitted one on crooked and the corner kept popping off over…
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Ridge Road, Chapter 13 · Just the Three of Us
Read fullThe taillights were real. Sam counted eleven of them pulling out of the High Plains lot at 5:50 Monday morning, red in the dark, and when he went into the office to drop the key…