The sky was blue and high, with a flotilla of cartoony clouds sailing by. Freed from my meeting at the bank, I stopped on the brick sidewalk for a moment, absorbing the laid-back bustle of downtown. The sun felt good on my cold hands. I held them out palms up, then turned them over like toast to ...
So were his embroidered bones. Phillip hadn’t covered wandering students in our volunteer orientation. Nadine was aware he’d been helping Jerry, though, and she hadn’t insisted that he stay with the rest of the group, so maybe I didn’t need to worry. Unless I needed to worry about law-breaking. D...
making it sound as though she’d said “four” dead people. Or maybe that was just my ice-cold ears; I was having trouble getting past her sinister whisper and ghostly embrace. I felt as though I’d spent the last half hour underdressed in a haunted subzero freezer. Debbie bustled in, ready for her u...
The disc I’d put on for her had long since finished. She would have been happy if I ran up to the study throughout the day, continuously feeding discs into the player. It had taken a combination of cajoling and firmness before she’d grudgingly agreed to a pace of two discs per day. Argyle was in ...