The 1996 Pendant In The Soldier’s Wallet And The Thirty-Year Debt I Paid In A Dallas Steakhouse
Airports and mid-tier business hotels have a way of making time feel like it is sliding right through...
Author: Jerry B. Case
My Brother Hid Nine Years Of Farm Profits And Forged My Signature
“Corn barely covers the diesel this season, Sis.” Alonzo said it with that same exhausted sigh he had...
The Fire Relief Fund And The Seventeen Thousand Dollar Secret My Best Friend Buried
The envelope felt too light the moment I took it from her hand. It was a standard manila...
My Brother Hid Nine Years Of Farm Profits And Forged My Signature To Get Rich
“Corn barely covers the diesel this season, Sis.” Alonzo said it with that heavy, tired sigh he had...
The 1994 Deed And The Boundary Line That Exposing My Father’s Favoritism Cost Claire Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars
I know you will judge me for how I handled the whole mess, and maybe I deserved every...
The 1994 Land Grant Deed And The Secret Property Line That Outsmarted My Father
The grease on the dial of my old range hood was sticky. I had spent forty-five minutes scrubbing...
My Son Was Sleeping Through High School Until I Found His Father’s Midnight Logbook
My fourteen-year-old son was sleeping through his ninth-grade classes, and for three months I believed his father’s lie...
My Mother Wasn’t Losing Her Mind, Her Husband Was Sedating Her Into Silence
For two years, Leo and I walked on eggshells in our own mother’s house. It was supposed to...
The Handwriting On The Gift Tags And The Insurance Policy My Best Friend Surrendered
The kitchen sponge was falling apart at the corner, leaving little yellow bits of foam right by the...
The Oak Framed Mirror From The Flea Market And The Cold Case Detective Who Tried To Bury My Sister
The dust in my grandfather’s old barn always tasted like dry chaff and iron filings whenever the wind...