We decided to hang Alfred. Viv went for rope. Tom went for a chair. I waited and talked with Alfred. We talked about spaceships and…
Mary stuttered her name again, and again, but it was clear the officer didn’t really care; the asking of her name was a reflex of…
And how many were there? The entire senior class, close to three hundred. Some administrators; a score of teachers. The football coach, six parents, one…
The fifth year seniors had been told often it was time, but they hung on with Members Only jackets and deviant eyewear. They called themselves…
It wasn’t the copperhead’s fault that my boot came down on its tail, no more than it was Bobby’s fault that he’d been raised by…
The fourth call of the day was an old woman who said she had monsters. Would have told her alligator. Illegal tegu. It was all…
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Across the country, it will be like Christmas time, ringing of bells. Across the country, a warranted eventual warning sign. Ring, we would hear, come…
I guess you’ll buy a gun. You’ll drive us into the desert, spray bullet-pat- terns on a stray concrete wall and tell me, “Guess what…
It was a haze of smoke when he tried to picture her, so one morning he started mixing her into his day, watching the gray…