Jeff Bender

3 weeks ago | pointsincase.com | Zach Zajac |Jeff Bender |Kara Panzer |Nick Gregory

Hank eased into the grocery store checkout line. Reaching for a pack of chewing gum, he was reminded of the time his mother reached for him as she fell backwards from that cliff, hands outstretched, her face saying she knew it was the end. “Did you find everything okay?” asked the cashier. Hank nodded and muttered the word to himself: “Okay.”It was the same word Mama had used months before it happened, sitting on her rickety front porch looking beautiful as ever in that old gingham dress.