A Twenty-Dollar Bill Dropped Into the Dust Beside a Tennessee Highway

“But Tiffany took a printed sheet out of her folder and held it up.

Then she pointed down the county road toward the bus stop.”

“Did Megan go?”

“She stopped walking,” Dale said.

“She stood there in the mud for two long minutes staring up at your office window.

Then she turned around and walked back toward the highway.”

“Did you get a look at the babies?”

“I saw a little cap under the yellow blanket,” Dale said.