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Elevator Code
As a freelance convention planner, I stay at many hotels over the course of a year. I spend about a week per trip in an ...
The Dark Thing
I live in a small town in America’s heartland where nothing much ever happens. People go to work and go to church, and everyone pretty ...
The Stitcher
“Are we there yet?” Nicole asked sleepily, her eyes still closed. The car bumped along the unlit two-lane country road, its motion answering her question ...
Media Darlings
The man found himself in complete darkness, but that’s not what concerned him. He wasn’t alone in the darkness either, but that was also of ...
Eternal Flame
I was seven years old when my brother Frank died in a fire. He was nineteen and a fireman and everything I ever wanted to ...
The Black Bone Tree
Two days ago, I drove up to northern Vermont to do a little hiking. I needed to get away from it all: my job, social ...
What’s in My Mouth?
I flipped through the channels, eyes glazed over, not really seeing what was on the screen. I was tired, a long workday behind me and ...
Mr. Lonely
You could be forgiven for thinking the greeting card industry is dying. You’d be wrong. The invention of email promised to kill the postal industry ...
A Touch of Graveyard Dirt
I made a terrible mistake. You see, it started when I was seven years old, and my father tried to reshingle the roof all by ...
Lickety-Split
It started out as a perfectly normal camping trip. It was me, Rosie and Jonas, just like usual. The three of us have been friends ...
Die Violently
I was going to bed. I was tired, just like you’re supposed to be. I lay down, turned the light off, and closed my eyes ...
Bones of Contention
The bones arrived on a Friday, in a pine crate the size of a steamer trunk. “Is that it, Mr. Evans?” Eliot asked, his tone ...
