MDT Twelve Years Ago Dr. Graham Bradley waited for the rooster tail of dust that had followed them for the last twenty miles to pass over the forest-green Cherokee before he finally opened the door and stepped down onto the sun-baked earth. His chief of security, Roland Pike, remained rigid behin...
Eldon Monahan sat at his antique dining room table, half a bottle of Pisco-Tabernero to his left, the broken shell of his cell phone, which he had crushed in frustration, to his right. The photographs curled as they burned in the ashtray, scattering ashes that descended like snow onto the pristin...
Dunfermline had lost again and he’d be drowning his sorrows. If they’d won he’d be celebrating fully. Regardless he would be enjoying himself, as usual. Pam was still dressed in her robes, but had managed to get through 2 essay questions for her next assignment. A good day’s work and this would a...
No celestial light penetrated the smothering black storm clouds, beneath which a damp mist rolled across the muddy ground. Somewhere in the darkness a parrot cawed from an enclave in a mahogany tree and the hooting of howler monkeys echoed from nowhere and everywhere at once. Until abruptly the w...
While much of what you’ll read here is largely anecdotal, I hope you’ll approach it with an open mind. Ask yourself the obvious questions. Maybe there isn’t a mysterious offshoot of the hominin tree hiding in the deepest, darkest forests, but I don’t want to live in a world where the possibility ...
He lowered his right foot onto the top rung in the waiting darkness, then his left, and hurriedly clambered down into the black depths. He spared a single glance back toward the circle of sunlight as he plunged deeper. Somewhere below, the sounds of Dandridge’s descent abated. A wan light rose fr...
--Anonymous I Flagstaff, Arizona "You coming or what?" Wolfe called. "Right behind you," Carver said. He stood on the sidewalk before the Mediterranean-style house, white stucco with arched windows, the red clay-tiled roof like corduroy to a giant, staring at the somehow forbidding faç...
Parallel scrapes and punctures that had warped the vinyl panels and nearly pulled them out in sections. More scratches on the overhanging eave where something had attempted to gain enough leverage to pull itself up onto the roof. I found a section of the trim from around my grandfather’s window b...