Author: JM Nab

The screen went black. Nobody in the conference room moved. The silver ring… The symbol we had chased through bank vaults, hospital hallways, and cemetery photographs… Had just been thrown …

PART 35: (END) THE CHAIRMAN SPEAKS………..On Mother’s Day, my wealthy son came over with flowers Read More

PART 2 — THE NIGHT OF OCTOBER SEVENTEENTH “…October seventeenth.” Arthur’s recorded voice finished the sentence. Nobody moved. For several seconds, the only sound in Mr. Katz’s office was the …

Every month I drove my dying husband to an office his children…….. Read More

We went back to the bank. This time nobody argued. Not Roy. Not Sandra. Not even Dr. Pierce, because Officer Bennett had arranged for another officer to remain with him …

PART 8 — WHAT ARTHUR DID AFTER HE READ THE LETTER Read More

Doubt. It was a terrible thing to feel about a dead man. Especially one whose hand I had held while he died. Especially one who had spent twenty-two months building …

PART 14 — THE NIGHT ARTHUR CAME BACK WITH DR. PIERCE Read More

Harold Pike had the original recording. Twenty-six years. One retired police chief. One old car heading north. And somewhere inside it, maybe, the first piece of evidence Thomas Bell ever …

PART 20 — THE RETIRED POLICE CHIEF RAN WITH THE ORIGINAL TAPE Read More

Sandra said she wanted to testify. Not bargain. Not negotiate. Not ask what would happen to her trust. Testify. When Officer Bennett told me, I thought I had misheard him. …

PART 26 — SANDRA FINALLY STOPPED ASKING TO BE SAVED Read More

By the time we returned to Mr. Katz’s office, it was after seven. Friday had begun with Roy expecting a realtor meeting. Sandra expecting a house key to matter. Me …

PART 30 — (END) THE WILL READING WE NEVER FINISHED………….Every month I drove my dying husband to an office his children Read More

PART 2 — THE QUESTION VIVIAN NEVER EXPECTED For a moment, nobody breathed. The attorney, Mr. Bennett, continued looking at the paper in his hand. Not at me. Not at …

My sister forced a DNA test to prove I wasn’t really Dad’s daughter so she could…………. Read More

Alyssa stared at her mother. “Who?” Vivian’s hand was still resting on the cassette player. Nobody moved. “Mom.” Vivian looked toward the window. “Please don’t make me say it.” Alyssa …

PART 11 — THE SECOND MAN Read More

The key looked ordinary. Small. Brass. Scratched from thirty years of being passed between people who apparently knew more about my mother than I did. R.H. Rebecca Harper. I looked …

PART 16 — BOX 317 Read More