Eight months ago, my life changed forever. I couldn’t tell you what the weather was like that day, what I had for breakfast, or even the first song I heard on the radio before I left the house. In fact, I can’t honestly remember any...

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The meteorite that hit Southdale wasn't especially spectacular. In the middle of one spring evening, it lit up the sky for a brief moment. It didn't turn night into day by any means. It merely streaked across the horizon and settled with a distant popping...

When I was growing up, we had an amazing toy store in our town. It was designed to resemble a medieval castle with multiple floors and took up an enormous portion of a nearby strip mall. You wouldn’t find national toy brands like Mattel or...

As a kid, I read a ton of sci-fi.Β  Pulp stuff, real trash, most of it, but it inspired me.Β  It told me that there were things out there to be discovered, that there were new worlds to open up.Β  No matter how far we’d...

Today’s my birthday.Β  That’s not generally something I bring up.Β  I don’t celebrate it.Β  Almost no one knows when it is, and I like it that way. I don’t like being put on the spot.Β  I don’t like the falseness of people wishing me a happy...

I was supposed to be at my friend’s wedding this weekend.Β  And the thing is, maybe I was there?Β  Only I’m pretty sure it was canceled.Β  I went to the bride’s funeral.Β  Butβ€”let me back up. I knew both Aldin and Petra from college.Β  They met...

I thought it was just like any other construction zone.Β  It looked the same: same cones, same signs, same trucks.Β  And honestly, if people would learn how to drive, I probably never would have noticed any differently.Β  But people get stupid in the face of...

It had been a whirlwind romance.Β  Hakamiah Morrison had been head over heels for Delilah from the moment he first laid eyes on her.Β  He was not greatly skilled in the art of seduction, or indeed even conversation, so it took a few tries to...

Obadiah had forty different words for fog.Β  From his fishing shack on the waterfront, he watched various fogs come and go, ebbing and flowing around the town.Β  He needed every one of the words to describe the varied types that ran their blurry touch over...

There were three things everyone could tell you about David.Β  The first, the one everyone noticed immediately, was that he was handsome.Β  Like, Hollywood handsome.Β  He had a roguish charm, too, a disarming smile that lit up his face and made everything all right.Β  Men,...

Saturday night. It seemed to take forever to come around. I can hardly bear it, my head buzzing like a kid on Christmas Eve, goosebumps dancing across my leathery skin. β€œUsual time, pet?” β€œPlease, dear. And don’t forget to feed Alfred.” β€œNever do, dear. Never do.” Now off you...

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