Three Green Notebooks Left in a Cedar Chest on Elm Street

me, his shoulders slightly hunched. He paused for three seconds, his eyes fixed on the steam rising from his mug.

“A quiet life is hard to build, Mabel, but it is very easy for others to tear down,” he said.

He reached into the deep drawer beneath the breadbox. His hand emerged holding the green ledger, its canvas cover stained with old grease marks continue reading …