With a calmness in his voice that is almost soothing, a calmness that collides viciously with the words he is speaking, he tells her that if she want him to stay she will have to get rid of it. And …
Luck’s Run wasn’t a city so much as a refueling stop, a name on a sign on I-79 about halfway between Charleston and Morgantown. The air soured and stank from natural gas wells and corpses of skunks struck by coal …
Last Thursday I got a run in my stockings and told Doctor Mayer about my fascination with Lenora Ashworth. I’d seen her photograph in a newspaper clipping at the reference library downtown and hadn’t stopped thinking about her since. Thin, …
I study the pile of debris. “How long has this been sitting here?”
“Week, few days, time’s a blur at this point.”
“Well, I’m not touching it, anything could be living inside.”
George hands me a rake. “Give it a …
The Assembly ball was the last time she truly felt well. She recalled the night with perfect clarity, each detail clear and colorful, down to the color of her perpetrator’s eyes.
They were not brown, as everyone around her assumed, …
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 …
It started as so many things did at the Hub. Dog days, Sunday afternoon quiet had settled over Atlanta, Idaho and a turpentine haze from the hot pines softened the edges of the mountains and forests. Abbie’s 1924 Roadster was …
Now, check this out. You know me, I’m smarter than the average bear, right? Now, I see the floods on the east coast and the massive storms in the south. Right here, in my own home town, I can smell …