Once more his ma had come through for him. One parole stipulation was that he had to remain gainfully and legally employed, so she’d pounded the pavement on his behalf and got him a job. He poured pine cleaner into the mopping pail, the disinfectant part of it making his nose wrinkle, then filled...
But nothing happened. She looked stupidly down at the gun. Her whole body had tightened up, as she’d waited for the worst, and now it felt like her muscles had turned into water. When his hand closed over the gun and he took it from her, she didn’t ...
When the temperature gauge that seldom rose to eighty climbed toward ninety, Sunny and Jonathan were forced out of the attic and to the beach. Quite willingly, Sunny left grisly discoveries and guilty confessions behind her. But she found that memories of comforting gestures that went straight to...