A Quiet Payment
The last house at the edge of town, just past the bridge, was the kind of place no one looked at for…
The last house at the edge of town, just past the bridge, was the kind of place no one looked at for…
The penny sat on the pavement, lodged in a crack between two slabs of concrete. Tarnished, scratched…
She’d seen her in the store, standing by the test aisle. A girl in a black velvet jacket and a red d…
There’s a rule about losing things, you know. Everyone’s been there. A sock gone from the dryer. A p…
Derek Marshall woke up in the coffin. It was not with the sharp gasp of a person who’d survived a ni…
David barely noticed it, at first. A single black speck crawling across his kitchen counter, weaving…
It began with a sock. Not a pair, not two, not even three. Just one. A sock, gray and worn, its fabr…
There was a rule in our house: If you think of something bad, knock three times to keep it from happ…
There’s a small antique shop in the middle of town, tucked between a laundromat that smells faintly …