Charles Haverty’s stories have recently appeared in the Gettysburg Review, AGNI, and Colorado Review. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, with his wife, children, and dog.
Noah has promised to help bury the Olcotts first thing in the morning. As he waits in the kitchen for Arthur, he watches Alice at the sink. She pours a brown paper bag of strawberries into a copper colander. One…