Three Green Notebooks Left in a Cedar Chest on Elm Street

in the corner booth, her fingers twisting her silver cocktail ring as she stared at her plate of dry wheat toast.

A cup of diner coffee costs $1.50, and I laid two quarters and a dollar bill on the laminate table before I even sat down opposite her.

She did not look up immediately, but her ring kept spinning, the metal clicking against her knuckles.

“Mabel,continue reading …