The music thrummed so loud that Janelle felt the vibrations. The beat pulsed through the walls and into her bones. As lyrics pierced her brain,

“Sidney, we need to talk.” Those are words no partner wants to hear. This sounds ominous, he thinks. They’re seated at the kitchen table and

Reggie had this idea for a bomb. But like, the bomb didn’t explode like other bombs did. It didn’t split an atom or push apart

The evening art class at the high school was crowded with middle agers. The much younger instructor kept brushing the palm of his hand against

Celia Jeffers stood at the front of the viewing room, watching the people file in. They came in slowly, with the hesitancy of the aging,

Rich Robinson slowly opened his eyes, unaware of how long he’d slept or what time it might be. He expected to see his wife, Gina,

We met because Monica blew Bill in the Oval Office and spilled some of the load onto her darling blue dress and hung that unwashed

My voice is back and now it’s everyone’s problem. It is the great fear, though, that the voice only comes back in waves, during these

I’ve been in combat, shot at, lost my hearing for three weeks from an IED—but all that was tame compared to Laura Marley’s driving. The

She was short, a little under five feet tall, with flat brown hair and a smooth face. Her chin was round, her eyes brown and

I first saw her at the IKEA that never closes on Van Dyke Street. It was three in the morning. I had gone in search

That was the last I saw of her. Her wrists tightened under the clasp of the mercury-plated handcuffs, sedated into a deep sleep. According to

The holy silence of the street was still disturbed by stragglers hurrying home before Yom Kippur’s seizure of the roads. Valentin walked up to the

As the son of a nurse, I spent many summer afternoons at my granddad’s house while Mom worked long shifts at the hospital. Granddad’s house

My heels clicked against the sidewalk with a growing impatience. My old house was on this street, and I longed to see it again. I