“Foam” appeared
in Rosebud
Jack closed the door quietly behind him. It shut like a safe. In his boss’s beach home all the wood had been kilndried and seasoned for the location. “Took over a year and cost a lot,” Shep explained, when he handed Jack the leather-bound…
“Bad” appeared
in Trajectory
I moved in with my dad when I was fourteen. He was living in a trailer a friend of his named Carson abandoned about a year before when the sheriff started getting after him for stealing cars. Dad said Carson was only taking junkers people weren’t…
“Rearview Mirror”
appeared in
Soundings Review
It was after eleven and traffic was thick for a Thursday night. Andrew kept several car lengths between them and all the prospective drunks. Miranda turned the rearview mirror toward her to see if, as she feared, all her eyeliner was…
“Saint Arlene”
appeared in
Edge
She turned off the overhead light and was startled to see a woman standing in their front yard. The woman waved to her. Juliette backed away from the window. She thought about calling 911, but that seemed on the hysterical side.
“The Edge”
appeared in
Dove Tales
Adriana was walking her dog Lucy through the woods near the townhouse she and her husband had lived in since 1995, ten years before the crash. She blogged about how she could be shooing deer away from her tulips and fifteen minutes later…