Category: Fiction

  The call caught Elliot off guard, as if he’d been caught peeping into a window of Amanda Ward’s bedroom.  In fact, when the phone rang, he wa...

    Watson took a sip from his water, glancing only once toward the commotion.  Not the kind of place you’d expect to see a baby, but true to the murmurings, th...

Iris and Jacob slept with their backs to one another, as if even during dreams they were headed in opposite directions. As they were. She had nearly died. It se...

It took several days before anyone answered Lanie’s Craigslist ad, and even by the end of the week, she had received only two responses.  Summoning the courage ...

The week of my sixteenth birthday, every teacher at James Buchanan High School talked as if the world was about to end.  Instead of listening to three days of t...

  Back then, she hardly dreamed at all.  It was as if there wasn’t room enough in her head.  She was so busy running. She had been eleven days on the road when ...

  After the second house of the morning—a three-story colonial with six bedrooms, two fireplaces and a Jacuzzi tub on the back deck—Clay’s inclined to set Kleck...

The sand is hot enough that Janet can’t walk barefooted, and Gloria forgot the umbrella they’d purchased from a street cart the night before back near the hotel...