She didn’t see him peeking around the door frame, but she’d hardly noticed him since they came home from the hospital three weeks ago. “She’s not my sister,” he’d said when his stepfather brought him to see her sleeping in the cradle the first night they arrived home. “You...
Not a single wink o’ sleep did he get any o’ those nights, so far as he knew. Between the waves rollin’ onto the shore and rattlin’ the bones what he suspected might belong to men he’d known on the Devil, the wind makin’ whispery sounds like voices in the trees, and the painful ache in his belly,...
Trevor stood off to the side, separated from the group, watching them as they stared at the unbroken stained-glass window. A wide variety of people made up the crowd: the youngest looked to be a five-year-old strapped into one of those dog-leash like contraptions as his mother whispered prayers t...