After Returning a Lost Wallet From My Mechanic Shop a Sheriff Came Looking for Me

an argument, hollow not because it was false but because Matt had already answered it.

“Most people don’t,” he said. “That’s why we’re here.”

One of the other officers, a younger man who had been standing quietly near the door, looked at me with the direct, uncomplicated expression of someone who has decided to say the thing he is thinking. “Your kids continue reading …