GS-I continued from the uploaded story. The setup, characters, and fin…

they were still there. Grief makes you check on objects.

His canvas work coat was hanging on the nail behind the cellar door. Carhartt. The brown had gone almost gray. A burn hole in the left cuff from 1998.

I put my hand in the right pocket. Two things: a stub of carpenter’s pencil and a key.

Not a house key. Brass, flat, short, with a red plastic fob continue reading …