Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

who had been forgotten by time.

I reached into my pocket and felt the cold, hard edges of the laminated document photocopy, but the memory of the missing ledger pages kept returning to my mind.

I walked back toward my car, the quiet streets of Austin feeling stranger to me than they ever had before.

By seven the next morning, I was waiting on the porch continue reading …