by Alli Marshall | Jun 9, 2024 | Timeline Stories
The writer had come to the Inn for a number of reasons, some more reasonable than others. His wife was receiving electroshock therapy a few miles away. In fact, from the back of the inn, which overlooked a sprawling golf course, he could nearly see the hospital where...
by Alli Marshall | Oct 26, 2023 | Timeline Stories
i. FIRST CRESCENT It was Marin who signed for the certified letter. The owner of the house had died and the family would be selling it so the estate could be divided evenly between the owner’s four children. Marin and their housemates had until the end of the month to...
by Alli Marshall | Sep 8, 2023 | Timeline Stories
Hank Garland made his way to the corner of College and Lexington. The building had a painted sign on the window: Hogan’s Watch Repair. But it was almost impossible to read for all the things piled up against the glass on the inside. Old chairs, dusty books, a pair of...
by Alli Marshall | Aug 1, 2023 | Timeline Stories
The makeshift recording studio on the roof of the Vanderbilt Hotel was hot as blazes. It was already steamy enough outside, hot even for August, and being up on the roof got us that much closer to the sun, as I figured it. Walt and I had traveled by foot, wagon, and...
by Alli Marshall | May 29, 2023 | Timeline Stories
It was the eve of Christmas Eve, so a kind of nothing day. Almost a holiday, but really an in-between day. A day for people who cared about Christmas and holidays to rush around buying last-minute gifts. Decorating, wrapping, baking. That’s what was going on at my...
