Rabbit Candle

Object No. 1 of 50

[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Neil LaBute, here.]

Instead of walking home the way I usually do —  past Maple and cutting over on Ivar before getting to the river — I decided to save a little time and turned right, going down toward the church instead of around it. They were having a yard sale on that scruffy patch of grass on the side of the rectory, near where the old chestnut tree had fallen down back when I was in the third grade. The stump is still...