The beer we snitched from Daddy is hot now and the cigarette butts are gone. I slosh the can and hand it to Sissy. Just one more sip left. She laughs at some joke Bubba just made that I didn’t …
Was it simply luck that had caused her to turn down this street? Or was there a deeper, more fateful meaning? She would never really know but blessed her luck all the same.
Hazel Lavinia Hamilton fussed at her parasol. …
Sometimes in the night, after the constellations pulled their grassy-eyed blankets over the unchanging mountains, mama would stand by herself in the kitchen, looking out of the window that overlooked the terraced paddies, silver and ethereal under the moon. She’d …
I came of age in a time of no heroes. I was reminded of that depressing fact this morning when I noticed today’s date. When I was fourteen, Tonya Harding became the national Figure Skating Champion. She was stripped of …
Laura Lynn had a theory that a wedding encased men like a prehistoric mosquito in amber. The way a man was when you married him was the way he was going to be for the rest of your life. She came up with …
“I came here to die,” said the old man in the chair next to me beneath the shade of a coconut palm, mere feet from the endless expanse of the Pacific.
Looking over at him with an exasperated sigh, I …
The culprits rode three horses, one with a distinct, odd shoe leaving sign Riddle’s been following for five days. They’re brothers—Leon, Ralph, and Otho, him that has but three fingers on his left hand. The Coakley brothers, each hunched behind …
A cautionary reminder of how smart our devices are becoming
It was one of those should have, could have, would have situation. The e-mail came in addressed to Garmin c/o vanislepeople (at) gmail.com with the title “version 13.0 as requested”. …
Standing nearly six foot three in high heels, Sally easily opened the door to Jimbo’s. She stepped inside and stopped as the door closed behind her. Gave her eyes a chance to adjust to the dim interior.
She saw fifteen or so …
They both claim happy marriages. They meet in innocent circumstances surrounded by others. A class.
He teaches the class. In an instant, she loves it. All he has to do is open his mouth. He speaks a-mile-a-minute: an idea, another …