Ninety-One Thousand Dirty Pennies Dumped on a Driveway in Oak Creek

“All twenty-three cleared.”

For a second the room was silent.

Then Ruth clapped once from the doorway and caught herself.

I laid my hand on the edge of his desk.

“And what’s left over?”

“Six dollars and sixty cents.” Paul wrote the figure on a yellow sticky note and stuck it to the corner of his monitor.

“It stays on the books till I cut the official receipt.”

“And when’s that?”