Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars and a Missing Name on a Ledger

set for November 14.

I went out to the driveway to lock the Buick, the air growing cool as the sun dipped behind the western hills.

The neighborhood was quiet, the sound of a distant lawnmower the only break in the afternoon.

I stood by the driver’s side door, my hand resting on the warm metal of the roof.

I shut the door of my car on continue reading …