New Husband. Old One Gone novel · Chapter 25 of 32
Chapter 25: The Night Before
Bryce's taillights went out our gate.
The lilies stayed behind on the gravel where they'd slid off his hood.
Mama walked over and stepped on them on her way back to the porch.
On Thursday I wrote the colonel a letter by hand.
I asked for one minute at the podium on Monday, to read my brother's name out loud in front of the wall.
His staff sergeant called Friday.
"The colonel has forwarded your request to the general, ma'am."
"Is that a yes?"
"It's a forward, ma'am."
On Sunday night, the Ropewalk was full of people eating.
Sawyer had pushed every folding table into one long line under the bulbs.
The crew came with their wives and their kids. The foreman's grandbaby slept in a car seat on top of the bar.
Granddad sat at the head of the table in his lawn chair, because he'd brought it and nobody could talk him out of it.
Mama made chicken bog in the catering kitchen, a pot big enough to bathe in.
Corey sat at the far end, not eating.
He had a sheet of notebook paper folded small in his fist.
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