The Math of Forty Years: How My Husband’s Wire Transfer Stole Our Retirement
The bank alert arrived while I was standing in the grocery store deciding whether twelve dollars was too...
Author: Jerry B. Case
The Peppermint Ledger: How My Father’s Rusted Truck and a Spiral Notebook Broke My Brothers’ Inheritance
My brothers got our father’s farm. I got his truck. That is the short version people repeated after...
The Coming Soon Lawn: How My Son’s Secret Real Estate Listing Backfired When I Called the Brokerage
The photograph came from my next-door neighbor while I was learning how to climb three steps with a...
The Key in the Upper Hall: How My Husband’s Lie About a Locked Door Exposed the Truth
The afternoon air in the parish always carried that heavy, damp salt smell after three o’clock, the kind...
The Chair by the Upright: How My Wife’s Hidden 1983 Letter Released Me From Forty Years of Grief
The afternoon light in the front room of the house on Maple Street had a way of collecting...
The Footprint Under the Foundation: How My $315,000 House Buy Exposed Fourteen Years of Silence
The fourth quarter operations budget on my dual monitors didn’t flicker once for twenty solid minutes while the...
The Snow on Park City: How Eight Years of Silence Broke When My Four Children Met Their Father
The notification light on my phone didn’t pulse with any particular urgency when it blinked on a Tuesday...
The Clause Before the Table: How My Estranged Parents Lost Everything When Uncle Arthur’s Will Was Read
The carpet in the hallway of the municipal building had that particular shade of institutional blue that never...
The Chair at Nine: How My Adopted Brother’s Gala Insult Backfired When I Locked the Executive Boardroom Doors
The crystal chandeliers in the grand ballroom of the Petroleum Club hummed with a low, heavy vibration that...
The Threshold of Inheritance: How My Husband’s Empty House Kept a Second Family for Three Years
The cedar floorboards in our front hallway have this one high, dry squeak right beside the coat rack...