We sat in the car for long minutes, taking note of the peculiar and foreboding surroundings. Ours was the only vehicle in the parking lot of a store that was the only one of its kind in roughly a thirty-five mile radius. “Business is usually booming.” Aries frowned, her eyes narrowed and focused ...
"Get up." The voice was soft but insistent. There was a world of steel in those two words, and in the eyes that stared impassively down at me. My fingers flexed in the dirt I'd just had the displeasure of tasting when I'd landed flat on my face for the tenth time that day. Eleventh? I had stopp...
“Hey, Lil, what’s up? I just changed the lock on the front door, and I even spiffed the place up a bit. It’s still pretty dreary and dusty around here, though.” Lilly heard her sister’s voice, clear and bright—and mildly apologetic—through the line. She pulled the phone from her ear and stared at...