I kept scratching at the wound with a scaly scab. Ma kept yelling at me not to scratch. “It’ll leave…
It was more shadows than complete darkness. I could see outlines of things if they were very near me. I…
Around midday, the sky darkened with flies. They filled the sky with annoyance and doom. Maybe this was the end.…
“No, you dimwit. Shirts go to the left and pants to the right.” The aging, overweight woman in a regulation…
“Have you found Braxton?” I was tearful and shivering. The interrogation room I was in had a constant flow of…
I had never seen a body hacked to pieces. I approached stealthily. Like a cat about to pounce on prey.…
He was a scornful man and I sat in his seat. I was in a den of thieves and drug…
It was a thin soup with some kind of strange looking dumplings in it. Angelino was expecting something unctuous and…
Once they were sure all of the mourners had gone, detectives Molloy and Hughes approached the open grave. Molloy took…
Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye That thou consum’st thyself in single life? Ah, if thou issueless…