This is the 2nd time I've read The Speckled Monster. I read it several years ago and liked it then; but either I skipped numerous pages the first time, or paid more attention this time! What a story Ms. Carrell has woven about the battle to overcome the dreaded smallpox that raged throughout th...
At the base of the summit, she tossed me the keys to her car and said, “Go.” Back at the house near the top of the stairs, I startled a maid, who pointed out Lily’s room. The bed was unmade, the duvet half hanging to the floor. But Lily was not there. For a moment I stood ...
Around him, the room rocks gently, as if during his months at sea, dry land had taken up rippling in waves, while the water had stilled. Clenching his teeth to stop the chattering, he stares at the shards of light that splinter a small square of night framed in the window. He has not seen the sta...