Things   With great effort, Chad heaved the corpse up onto the bumper and into the trunk,...

The Forgotten One   It is cold and dark. I can hear them. They are above the rotting old...

Special    He had never seen the girl in room 201. He knew it was a girl because of the long,...

Confessions    I was murdered at age eight. I never stopped breathing and there was no...

The Shock    The hospital rises up out of the fields as if it has been planted there. Nobody...

This Time Tomorrow    Just thirty minutes, thought Grace, as she set the grocery bags on the...

A Glitch in the Game   Thirteen-year-old Jayden Smith turned the lock on the doorknob,...

The Abandoned    Right into here? My full name? Okay, sure. Cassandra Evangeline Stoica....

The Mansion, the Chandelier, and the Belle   While working for his older brother, Butch...

Gladys Sing    A low whisper and stale breath tickled Gladys Sing’s ear awakening her.  She...

Slow No Wake    From where Sonia Greene stood on her widow’s walk, she could see a quarter...

The Gospel According to Mr. X    John was bound, gagged, and naked in the back of a pickup...

Thump      The bright sun lent a cheery atmosphere to the brief funeral. The three...

King’s Tavern Blues     At nine, I searched the crowd in Quincy’s Bar and found...

Cold Case  For well over a century, the modest, one-story house had stood at the end of an old...

Doctors and Patients   The doctor eyed his pipe in its stand, freshly packed with Virginia...

Chain Letter    Anton Deveau had a schedule. 6:00 a.m.—start the day, hot shower, shave,...

You’re Only as Jung As You Feel    Judy Barton stared at her pale reflection in the...

Mother Love    Ernest suspects his Mama is mad. The nasty gnawing idea has been growing...

Feeder    The buzz felt good. Billy Hunter didn’t go to restaurants often, but when his old...

The Promise    She’d nearly choked on it that night on the moonlit beach—the sharp, pungent...