2 a.m. I drive Cassie home and park outside her house. “Leave the engine on,” she says. “It’s cold.” Cassie…
Dad was a big guy, mean looking. Dad was a mean guy. I didn’t know him well. It’s hard to…
The rain began on Monday. A light drizzle that became an insistent downpour. My husband tended to the farm as…
Mark only saw it by itself at night, when she would remove it and lean it against the wall before…
Some would say that I was born in the saddest of times. Our planet was nearing its end. The skies…
I was painted blue. War time blue. I was like all my Pictish clan. We were to storm Hadrian’s Wall.…
I was quite alone on the train. A nurse in pale gray heading for South England. I was called on…
Mac boarded a flight in Boston. Bailey caught one out of New York. They changed planes in Chicago and sat…
Nancy sipped her tea and exhaled. “Maybe I have depression. Wouldn’t that be awfully romantic?” She dragged the “aw” and…
Its size was large yet reasonable, its edges filed away to form a perfect circle of crystal. It possessed a…