Tony’s clothes lay in a pile on the bamboo floor, and she could hear the shower going. Amber felt sleep-heavy and relaxed, face in the pillow. Until the phone rang. Tony’s phone. He was old enough to not approve of ringtones, so he used the ring that sounded most like a telephone. Tinny and sharp...
The wind pushed hard against his back, and he had to wrench the car open. When he let the wind shove it closed behind him, the sudden silence inside the vehicle put Carmen’s voice at far too high a volume. “—that’s a problem? Because Heberto was not thrilled when he heard about the woman. Not thr...
It was a clean, empty view, and he liked to rest his eyes on it when he’d been focusing on the ceiling too long.So when he saw her out there skating on the pond late one afternoon, it took him longer than it should have to process what he was looking at.A bird, skimming over the water. No, ice.A ...
Afterward, Ashley showed him the road just beyond the back edge of the campground property. “This used to be the front,” she said, “but in the nineties they had to reroute the highway and abandon this section because it was too dangerous.” “Dangerous how?” “There’s an underground fire. This is co...