Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

her fingers clasped so tightly in her lap that her knuckles were white.

I slid the check across the laminate table beside her cup of hot tea.

Two dollars for a cup of lukewarm black coffee was listed on the menu, but we had both ordered the orange pekoe.

Evelyn looked down at the paper, and her fingers stiffened around her paper napkin.

She stared at continue reading …