Short Story

Every night that summer I looked across the yard from my bedroom window into Callie’s, which glowed like something you could see from space....

Crim has not seen her mother or father in a few weeks. Sometimes she hears them, shuffling in another room, or outside working on...

These days, I’m inclined to think that my eccentric parents are going insane. I consider flying back home to see if this is true...

“Taz, yo, no shit, Taz just goes off on him!” Hector was all bouncing around in the big cracked leather chair by the window in...

“Mark Phillips.” “What? Sorry?”  “Mark Phillips.”  “How do you know my name?”  “You don’t remember me.”  “I’m sorry, no I don’t.”  “Think.”  “I am.”  “Think harder.”  “Yeah.  Well, I’m thinking hard.”   “Right. Think...

When the phone rang I was lying on the divan. It sounds so chic, like I was a lady of leisure waiting for other...

The beginning of the dinner party, the part I liked best, was always the same. Us kids ate pizza (gluten-free crust as of last...

We were always uneasy in the old place, a trailer we stayed in on the half-acre behind my boss’ house. There was almost always...

I have ten seconds. Or at least that’s what it seems like. I reach for my backpack, but it's far off on the other...

After his wife died in childbirth, the man raised his daughter up until the September she left for college. That October, the man sorted...