They sat at a table in the library of their offices, the president a plump, balding, pleasant-faced man and the accountant, as sour-faced and thin as any penny-pinching miser. It occurred to Tobin he’d never actually been in any of the machining factories that all this fus...
In the weeks that followed, Jonah began to find his place in the traveling company. Newcomers like him were on probation until everyone saw whether they stuck or not. The carnival often picked up hired help that blew away in the night like fluff on the wind when they realized transporting a trave...
Another lunch shift at the Back Porch and it seemed as if those surreal, crazy days with Nick had never happened. The regulars sat on stools at the counter or in booths, which might as well have been stamped with their names. Gopher manned the grill. Marty moved like lightning from the tables to ...
He wouldn’t belong here. He had been dismissed, or would be soon. Irrational fear clutched him and held him so hard he had to walk outside. He stumbled through the rose garden, looking for the refuge of the small maze. The boxwoods had not grown tall enough yet to hide the...