Everything And More
“'Daniel,' Tom blurted. He pressed a palm into his eye socket until he saw stars. 'As in, Daniel Avon. My brother.'" Tom tries to guess his uncle's security password. Will he be right? It's this week's...
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“You’ll be a bigger help if you’re not bleeding all over the floor. Go on. Take this and sit down someplace until it stops.” Apparently, Tom Avon is some sort of bastion of patience and forgiveness....
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"What went unspoken in the living room was this steady progression of minutes--the fact that in three hours Paul Avon would return to the Everything Store and discover his office ransacked." It's...
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"7:00 am.: Tom makes three phone calls from his room—the first to his uncle; the second to Conrad Valiss; the third to Rosie, the cashier at the Everything Store." The clock is ticking for our heroes...
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"Somebody told me once it made no sense, what happened at the auction. Why would she spend all that money? Why draw all that attention? She was trying to send you a signal, wasn’t she?" Tom breaks it...
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"Uncle Paul glanced back. The detective was coming up the drive, and through the windshield they could see him reaching to unholster his gun. It was an awkward maneuver for a man that size in a car...
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“This is a Degas. My mother bought it. She liked that it didn’t stand out. She liked that it faded into the background. Nobody notices a Degas, she told me. They just feel a tiny bit better in its...
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"She turned from the dresser and looked at Tom, and he realized he was mistaken about her sadness. It wasn’t sadness he saw, but some deep exhaustion that had sunk into her bones." Tom says goodbye to...
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"He followed Tom to the safe, where he slid two hundred-dollar-bills from a stack. There was a black case sitting on the manager’s desk. Remley popped it open. Inside was a pocket watch, and a bottle...
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"After working several odd jobs – ghostwriting erotic vampire fiction, proofreading cookbooks, and coaching the Utah Jazz – I landed a gig at an online news-magazine." New fiction by Andy Bankin. The...
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