Category: Fiction

  Helena finds the little book in one of the archive boxes from the Deagan estate.  She lays it aside because she’s looking for treasure—a Dickens serialization...

  The Karate Boys got their start in the aftershock of Ingrid Liddy’s big landing in Pine, two days after the snow finally let up that spring. Donna had bo...

    I’m standing in my new neighbor’s kitchen watching my two-year-old, Benji, size-up her two-year-old Avram. She’s cradling her baby, a peach pink l...

      Helene Adams guided the car haltingly into the garage and shut the engine. She held the steering wheel and turned her profile toward the st...

    1. Grilled Alaska Salmon with apricot balsamic reduction; risotto; local mustard greens; house chardonnay. Stuffed filet mignon with whiskey peppe...

The rainstorm came on all at once—a pelting, August rain that no one, it seemed, had anticipated, as there wasn’t a single umbrella open anywhere on the street....

    The woman her husband had married after he left her was the last person Jean expected to hear from.  When the phone rang she thought it would be h...

    She sees him first at the back of the lot, belly-deep in snow by the wild grape.  Alec sits at the table, eating the new organic eggs.  It’s Valentine’...

  Glug-Glug the Frog Boy would swallow anything, as the legend was told, and the posters and press releases announcing his arrival attested to that and spe...

    On an afternoon when Catherine was able to duck away from the Quiet Adventures tour group, in between two lectures she was signing for the traveli...