The thing about the guy was nobody really trusted him when he first got into town. He...
Stories
Tom first heard about it crouching over an illicit transistor built by an enterprising boy in tech...
Ten after midnight a Japanese torpedo exploded the starboard bow of a heavy cruiser, puncturing the bulkhead...
I am reminded of the day my father died. It was a cold, wet mid-morning, and we...
On Sunday, April 12, 1970, Sophie received a call from her cousin Mabel in Texas. Mabel told...
The tears came easily. It had been a horrible day. Tag Bridges had pulled her truck into...
“What can you see from where you’re sitting, Mommy?” This is how their game starts. “I see...
The wood-frame house, a century old but in decent shape, dominated the hilltop. Near it, a barn,...
We had taken the boat out painfully early that morning, maybe 4:30, and I couldn’t help feeling...
When I reflect on the summers of my youth, I remember swimming lessons and ice cream, bicycles,...
Sergeant Sam York got the tip by phone in the morning. “You know the rash of disappearances...
Anna and her half-brother Rudy watched as their neighbor Paulie lifted Shadow’s stiff body and laid it...
Ascending through darkness brought suffering enough to cause Ripley Walker to beg for everything just to stop,...
“Yes! They’ve got Sammy Skunk!” Albert shouted to his wife Louise, who was folding the laundry and...
A kbar had been plagued by a recurring nightmare ever since he signed the contract for his second...
Raffalon clung to the wall of Hurdevant’s keep, the adhesive on his palms holding him tight to...
It had been a while since I had last seen Jack. With him, though, that was never...
The grey light shone on the plastic wrapped around the new spade, leaning on the piano, and...
The rooster call spiked her ears at dawn. Maria cracked her eyes open into the black. Straw...
