Bears
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Concert Pitch
Read fullYou hear the truck before you see it, because the muffler has been going since 2011 and Gaétan has never once admitted it. It is ten past six on a Friday in late October, and the…
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Ridge Road, Chapter 8 · The Cedar Box
Read fullHank slept until half past nine on Monday, which Sam hadn't known he could do. He had been up since six. He had made coffee in the kitchen under the new patch on the ceiling, eaten…
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The Rule
Read fullSignal Number Eight went up at ten past five, and by six o'clock Stanley Fung had stopped pretending to read the freight report. The office on the fourteenth floor of a Sheung Wan…
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Bread in the Ground
Read fullThe whole valley smells of boiled eggs, and Mal Kearney, who has cooked on ships for twenty-six years and thought he had smelled everything, takes it personally. "It is sulphur,"…
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Second Opinion
Read fullGerry Pask had rung me eleven times in nine days to ask whether a mare looked uncomfortable, and when the foaling alarm finally went off at ten to three on a Thursday morning in…
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Ridge Road, Chapter 7 · The First Winter
Read fullHank left at four-thirty on Thursday morning, in the dark, with his thermos and logbook and a load that Walt had booked for him. He had explained it twice in the kitchen. A…
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Grow Light
Read fullThe humidity alarm goes off during the pudding, which in the history of Fenwick Station has never once happened at a convenient time. It is Midwinter's Day, the twenty-first of…
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Last Boat to Kadıköy
Read fullYou kept the coat. I saw it before I saw you. It was on the third hook in your hall, where I had left it eight years ago on the last night, navy wool, a bit shiny at the cuffs…
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Standing Down
Read fullThe jury took four hours and ten minutes, and Judge Rafferty used every one of them to avoid looking at the defence bench. Ally Magill watched him do it. He had watched him do it…
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Ridge Road, Chapter 6 · The Back Bedroom
Read fullThe house was smaller than Sam had pictured and cleaner than he had feared. It sat on a corner lot off Lewis, a brick bungalow with a deep front porch and a screen door that had…
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The Tarp
Read fullAt twenty to nine on Saturday night the freezing rain finds the hole over the front pews, and Calvin Moyer, who has been telling the church board for three years that the roof…
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Anchor Watch
Read fullWe were five days at anchor off Singapore when the captain rang down to my cabin and asked if I would bring the generator logs up myself. I had been Chief Engineer of the Kestrel…