waiting to cross.  My heart tick, ticking like a stupid clock.  Eddie and his dark hair forest, his blue eye…

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…