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Curtis Poole's estranged daughter dies, leaving him with fading memories of her and vivid memories of his actions that carved the decade-long rift in their relationship.
With all hope of reconciliation severed, Curtis grasps for redemption through the people his daughter loved.
But redemption proves elusive, and the questions Curtis asks all lead in the one direction he most fears to follow.
A short story from Dale Hartley Emery about the things we leave behind and the things we hold onto.
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Dale Hartley Emery
Dale Hartley Emery writes fiction in a variety of genres, including fantasy, crime fiction, and mainstream fiction. His stories include Inventory, Marmalade, and The Donation. Dale has worked as a failed shoemaker, reluctant dairy farmer, and ruthless ice cream man. For several years he monitored the nuclear test ban treaty, making sure those pesky commies didn't blow up the planet. (They didn't.) When he isn't writing, Dale advises software teams and leaders about how to play nice together. Colleagues in Dale's industry once created a special award for him for being reasonable. Dale lives in California with his wife.
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Inventory - Dale Hartley Emery
INVENTORY
Dale Hartley Emery
Driscoll Brook Press
© 2015 Dale Hartley Emery
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Contents
Title Page
Photograph
How It Ended Between Us
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About the Author
Connect with the Author
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Photograph
Curtis Poole stood with his hand pressing against the open doorway of his daughter’s apartment. She never invited him to visit when she was alive. He did not want to be here now that she was gone.
Lynn’s hand, cool and small, pressed gently on the small of his back. We have to do this.
The heat of the living room seemed to push heavily against Curtis’s chest, forbidding him to enter. The drapes were pulled back from the picture window on the far wall, and the afternoon sun had turned the room into a greenhouse. The sofa, with thick arms, upholstered in a heavy, blue-gray fabric, took up most of the wall to the left.
Above the sofa hung the Marty Stanley painting of the sun setting beyond Mount Diablo in the distance, displaying
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