“Oh hell no! Lucy! Get the gun!” The screen door to the kitchen slams shut. Barby’s muck boots crunch down the path through the rows of garden beds all tucked in for the winter. I drop my paintbrush into
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Liam fumbles with his tie in the mirror, the silk flashing dark and blue. Not like that. Let me do it. He laughs and turns to face me. The tie slips loose the first time. My fingers pause, then
Rain pounds like hoof beats as I read under the school awning. Teachers raise their eyebrows at me as they trickle out the door. “School ended an hour ago, dear. I could give you a ride home, if you’d
I had found the end of the world. Not an end in time, an end in… distance. Perhaps I could better elaborate this as the edge of the world. Now please, let me assure you, I was never a
At 8:55 p.m., my advisors leave me in my office, just as they do every Sunday night. They don’t want to be around me for the next hour. No one does. You see, there’s a tiny bomb implanted at
John the junk man was huge. He was the biggest man in the entire county. At 6’5″ and 350 lbs., he was bigger than any professional wrestler on television and every offensive lineman in the AFL or NFL. This
Grease hung in the air and stuck to the walls as Oriana scrubbed a glob of congealed ketchup on a table. Sweat hid beneath her turtleneck and she rolled her shoulders, feeling as though she had bathed in poison
Last night it all came to an end. When Franco woke up, Evelyn was gone. She didn’t even leave a note. She left one thing behind. A half-eaten bag of pretzels. He stayed in bed a long time. For
Just as there are charming women in the world, and clever women, and righteous women, and deceitful women, there are also indignant women. Jamila was an indignant woman. When, at Salwa’s sboua, she registered the nature of the gossip
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