Three Sisters Divided Over a Limestone Bakery Built in Nineteen Sixty-Eight

years ago?”

“The board set the fee schedule in January,” Howard said, his voice flat and formal. “Without the payment, the file remains locked in the vault.”

I thought of the five hundred dollars sitting in my personal savings account at home, the money I had kept aside for my winter heating bills.

“Can you deduct it from the bakery’s continue reading …