It was a bright, gray day with no breeze, and she had just finished digging a grave. She’d woken that…

Bette was stirring her coffee when she saw the postcard, tucked between a large print arthritis monthly and debt consolidation…

Maggie has clouds for eyes. Also, she barely talks. Other kids have asked her how those clouds got stuck there,…

I was the one who took the photograph of the princess with her toes in the mouth of a man…

These are the things you may not do: You may not hide in or under your bed without speaking for…

It was the off-season and we were left to the rain that mourned the tourists. Paddleboats masquerading as swans. Swans…

To the centipede I tried to kick down my drain but refused to go. I see you there. Being better…

The girl detective has just turned fourteen. She will be kidnapped a week before her fifteenth birthday, ice cream in…

The meteor fell from the sky and landed in the yard of the couple. It charred the grass and flattened…

Alas, behind the garage where the trash cans are, hunched and weeping, your cousin Glenna says she is pregnant and…