Bears
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Immersion Night
Read fullFarhad Irani has been telling me for twenty years that my kheema is oily, and tonight at eleven o'clock he walks across the lane to tell me again. I am alone in the kitchen with…
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Ridge Road, Chapter 5 · Tuesday
Read fullSam drove the first hour out of Salina under Rule One, which meant nobody talked, and for sixty-one miles nobody did. The dark came down flat over the Kansas line. The Pete ran…
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Layover
Read fullThe crew van smells of floor polish and somebody's biltong, and Thandi is asleep against the window with her cap in her lap by the time we hit the N2. I let her sleep. She flew the…
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Closed
Read fullAt ten past one in the morning Hal Brandt took his shoes off under the desk for the first time in nineteen hours and found out he couldn't stand up again. His feet had swollen and…
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After Lorna
Read fullGideon Strand is trying to hang his funeral jacket in a hotel closet built for a much smaller man when he hears Ellis Reeve say his name from the bedroom doorway of the suite…
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Ridge Road, Chapter 4 · Salina
Read fullHank took the Salina exit at twenty to two and drove right past the Love's without slowing down. Sam watched it go by in the mirror. They went on up the frontage road to the north…
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Prompt Side
Read fullNobody in Kilmoran could have told you exactly when it started, but everybody had a theory, and Maureen at the post office had the best one. Her theory was that it began at the…
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High Water
Read fullI had held the good bunk in that hut for years, and I was sitting on it with my boots off and my socks steaming on the woodburner rail when Rawiri Pene filled the doorway…
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Ham Tea
Read full"You'll eat ham," Bern Haigh says, and puts a plate in Lyle's hands before Lyle has finished saying hello. It is a paper plate with a wall of thin pink ham on it, a boiled egg, a…
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Ridge Road, Chapter 3 · Past Denver
Read fullThe gate guard at the Commerce City receiver was asleep in a lawn chair, and the dispatcher inside looked up when Hank walked in and said "Doyle" like she was reading it off a…
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Hot Towel
Read fullI had the sign flipped to CLOSED and the broom halfway round the second chair when the co-op truck pulled up out front and sat there with the engine running. It was ten after five…
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Middle Cut
Read fullThe spirit was still coming off the foreshots when the headlights swept across the still house windows, and Dougie Macrae didn't need to look to know whose car it was. He looked…