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.

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

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

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

Celina was the first to arrive at the lake house. Gael would join her later that afternoon for their monthly rendezvous. They both lived in

“I heard they called 1-800 GOT-Junk,” my aunt says on the phone. “The crew arrived early, before dawn. Took toilet seat covers and sheets. Even emptied

On my bureau sits a pair of my baby shoes. Vintage white leather high-tops, cracked with age, toes scuffed raw to a dusty brown. Caked

Bart puts what he promises is his last cigarette into his mouth, flicking alight his little zippo with practiced flourish. He got it when he

I looked out the picture window in the parlor. Oak trees lined the drive, heavy with Spanish moss hanging like silvery garland. The black bruise

“Proprietary. As though we were his to command.” That was how Astrid put it to her friend after dinner, when they were – at last

He opened his eyes to the sun tinted white wall next to her bed, a glaze of burnt orange filling up all he could see.

“You been there?” I ask. On the television is Las Vegas. Sports cars fly over the pavement disrupting crowds of tourists, and knocking over hot