I call, Leave those shoes outside, and there’s the obedient drop of one oxblood Doc Marten boot, then the other. The fog is rolling in

Today, when I drive by your school, my heart does not leap in excitement as it always did before I picked you up. Your scent

CW: Descriptions of the sexual assault of a minor.   ‘I’m sorry, I’ – Deirdre watched the man’s features switch from shock to recognition. His

Tony Stiles, an app developer with an upstart software startup, piloted a project that succeeded well beyond his modest expectations, netting his employer $2.4 million

On a cool Sunday afternoon, they sat at their usual courtyard table in the seaside café. He gazed into the distance, taking in the sea.

All the lawns on Marianne Avenue are mowed on Wednesdays because that’s the weekly off. But not hers. Not his. Their lawns? Never mowed. Neighbors

I woke up to screaming. Happy screaming, not macabre screaming. I opened one bleary eye. I sighed and rubbed my eyes. Four hours of sleep

“You can really taste the hint of cotuit,” says Maisie, the mother of the man you are supposed to be dating. You don’t ask what

I was ten when I found an old and broken, remote-controlled, wood boat in a garbage can down the alley where Mrs. Johnson lived. After

Martin McAvoy was hiding from life in Anacortes. It was over two years now since he’d lost his sweet Heather to cancer. The vestiges of

It was not quite right to say Jessica hated tourists, though she often told people she did. No one believed her if only because she

Deep in the woods  Fairies fly  Damn good loving Gets you high But your love  Better be true Or the fall Will make you blue.

Heartbeat born of my heartbeat, but I will always be a stranger to you, another man your father, your mother my lover when she shouldn’t

Pamela opened her wardrobe cupboard wide and was strangely disappointed to see the array of widow’s weeds. Old-fashioned dresses and suits that should have been

I like to watch my daughter in the evenings with her finch…her 16th birthday present. I bought it for her last week, after one of