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The Turnaround
Dee Carson is driving her last load north when a girl with a suitcase too heavy for her is standing at the turnoff. Over the long climb, two strangers trade the only loose change either of them has.
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Mending Season
The shop closes at the end of the month, and then a woman brings in a black umbrella forty years old that belonged to her dead son. Mona mends it, and in doing so mends a small piece of the time between them.
The Quiet Floor
Vera has cleaned the night ward for thirty years and asks nothing of anyone. A dying man in room 14 starts talking to her through a half-open door, and by the summer she understands what he saw.
The Department of Missing Tuesdays
Oona processes repossessed hours for the city until she opens a drawer containing an entire Tuesday—and the brother who died inside it eleven years ago.
The Silt Line
After their mother dies during a flood, two former wives have six days to empty the family house. The water has exposed letters, debts and an old betrayal that neither woman managed to bury.
Three Notices on a Blue Ford
Lorna has repossessed cars for eleven years without carrying anybody home. The next blue Ford on her list belongs to Sasha, who once taught her how to kiss and then disappeared.
All the Lights at Paradise Bingo
Paradise Bingo has survived bad roofs, smoking bans and thirty-four years of Ruth Bell calling the numbers. On its final night, Evelyn Cross returns in green sequins with a letter from Ruth’s dead husband.