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Head pounding, stomach roiling, and vision swimming, Detective James sat up. …
“Did you hear what happened to ole Doc Webster?” I asked the old man sitting on the bench next to me. Before he could reply, Mayor Tom Winger came tearing through the town square in his new, 1976 Chevy Impala …
It happened long ago. But…it so profoundly impacted my life that I feel compelled to share it with you. Hopefully, it will prove to have a positive impact on your life as well.
My story begins in Taiwan during the …
Thunk-splat. Rex encased Christmas’s roast in slavering jaws. Denny’s again. *****************
Julie Howard is the author of the Wild Crime mystery series, with a paranormal mystery to be released in 2019. She is a former journalist and editor, and …
Jessica contemplated her life’s many dead ends and wrong turns.*****
John Sheirer lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wonderful wife Betsy and happy dog Libby. He has taught writing and communications for 26 years at Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield, …
Years ago, I watched a man walking through our neighborhood using what I then suspected were ski poles. He seemed to be moving at a fair pace, and with apparent ease. As he seemed to be perhaps in his sixties, …
She is eating apples. Nothing but apples will do. As she paces the house she crunches through their hard skins into the clear crunchy pulp, the sweet-sourness in her mouth.
Not his sourness. She is washing that away.
No apple …
The bus came by to pick the residents up early, around seven, so they could make the half hour drive to the State Fair and get them down to the carnival before it got too hot. They would all want …
“Turn the gas up!” shouts the extractor fan over the hob. “The porridge won’t cook at that low temperature.” It grins in that wide-mouthed way it has.
“Sorry,” says Rebecca, turning the gas up and stirring the porridge. She’d never …
The earthquake doesn’t wake Maeve, but it’s a big one, so Wendy changes out of her sweats and into her librarian clothes because of course Principal Tannen’s going to call her into work. She’s a single mother so he knows …