Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

placed it in the trunk of my car, right next to the leather-bound 1937 journal and my own small suitcase.

“We left the house empty, but we kept the truth,” I had told Clara as we turned off the basement lights for the last time.

Now, standing on the porch, Clara looked at the empty yard where the old tire swing had once hung from the continue reading …