It happened so fast, no one had time to breathe. In one instant, the chemistry lab at Westbrook High was buzzing with the…
The sun beat down on the Santa Monica Pier, a perfect California afternoon where laughter, the tinny music of the carousel, and the…
The morning light hit the cracked pavement like broken glass. Six-year-old Eli, barefoot, rubbed his plastic bucket with one hand and his eyes…
At thirty-one, I was a chief accountant for a trading company in Chicago, a city that hummed with a life as steady and…
I walked through the front door, and the smell of roast chicken and slightly-too-sweet air freshener hit me. It was the smell of…
We didn’t run. We didn’t yell. Running is for chaos; yelling is for weakness. We simply walked. The back door of the VFW…
The mall security finally rushed over, their faces pale and sweaty. They looked at Ethan, clutching his wrist, then at me, an unassuming…
The house smelled of antiseptic and aging wood, a sterile scent clinging to the memories of a home. Upstairs, the man who had…
The fluorescent lights of the St. Jude’s emergency room waiting area felt like interrogation lamps. Every flicker seemed to mock me, buzzing in…
We were almost ready to start our Saturday, and I couldn’t hold it in anymore. The fake smiles, the dancing, the intimacy from…