"Windfall," by Michael Bracken, in Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House, edited by Michael Bracken and Stacy Woodson, Down and Out Books, 2024.
This is the tenth appearance here by my friend and fellow SleuthSayer Michael Bracken.
Let me begin by saying of all the anthology themes I've run across this might be the most unexpected. Admittedly, I have never been in a Waffle House.
Mike, Jerry, and Bill, three old pals, go fishing one day and make an unexpected catch: half a million bucks that fall (falls?) out of an armored car when it's robbed.
But that kind of money is like fairy gold, hard to hold onto. Mike keeps urging his friends not to spend conspicuously, but as one of them says "What good is having it if we can't spend it?"
You know what they say about the love of money. They could have added that it's the root of a whole lot of trouble.
I admit that what put this story over the top for me is the clever connection between it and the title of the book. But you will have to figure that out for yourself.
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