
A man survived winter by building tightly, by chinking every seam with moss and mud, by stacking a high woodpile, by sleeping under every blanket…

By noon, Mara found the 2nd truth. The swamp could feed a person who paid attention. She saw crawfish holes in the banks, fish in…

Kora handed over 7 crumpled dollar bills from their dwindling savings. Naen stamped the transfer papers and slid them back across the counter. “Well,” she…

Steve crossed his arms. “If you came here to explain the joke, I already got the message.” Marcus shook his head slightly. “It wasn’t a…

I lifted it out. My hands were shaking. I do not know why. It was something about the care of it, the deliberate hiding, the…

I could not sleep. Sometime after midnight, I got up and lit my second match and started looking. The answer was in the kitchen floor.…

The rain in the valley did not fall; it drifted, a cold, grey shroud that clung to the jagged stones of the ancestral estate. Inside…

“I’ve been trying to fix the fence along the north boundary,” she said, “the one that borders your field. 3 of my posts are rotted…

Aunt Evelyn had been her father’s sister, a woman who had lived alone in a cluttered house on the edge of town. She had been…

Patricia sneered as she gathered her papers. “You will have to pay property taxes on a pile of rot. He must have really hated you…





