I opened the back door to my house, without bothering to put shoes on, and walked towards the line of trees that stood at the ...
The Original Sin We were just open-minded kids. We wanted to see as much of the world as possible. God forgive us; we didnβt mean ...
My breath catches on the golf ball sized lump in my throat as it escapes my lungs. The health departmentβs been making its rounds, and ...
Outside the wind shrieked against the window pane, the news had said that there was a blizzard headed her way. Stacey had been rushing around ...
I used to think of Hell as a faraway place. For those of you out there who still hold that belief, this piece of my ...
Edward Harker waited in his office until the financial management firm of Harker, Parks & Associates was empty, and then took the elevator to the ...
Walter was cool. Walter was tough. Walter was 13 years old. As the only teen on his block all the other kids that lived on ...
Iβve been a widower for exactly six years now. I was blissfully married to a woman named Ava for fifteen amazing years. We didnβt have ...
It was on the third day of the stench permeating the house that we decided to call the landlord. In the last month since we ...
My name is Henry Himura. I work for a large law firm situated near downtown Los Angeles. Weβve handled some of the biggest, most controversial ...
Theyβve called me a shit-magnet since I was a kid. Itβs only an expression, sure, but I think it might also be a real thing ...
βCome on, Jim, you know itβs going to suck.β I didnβt nod, though I wanted to.Β Mark was right, as usual.Β Most of camp had ...