She didn’t get them at work. I’d given in to the need for a super-sized iced tea from the gas station/mini-mart. I sat in my hot car in the parking lot with all the windows rolled down and tried to figure out where to go from here. The roses were a dead end. The only people who knew where Melody ...
“Tell me about your parents,” she said. “Ma’am?” “Are they still married?” That assumed Stewart’s parents had been married in the first place, which was a pretty big assumption where mortals were concerned. Or gods, for that matter. Stewart stood in front of her desk clutching his notepad like it...
The tip flickered orange in the hulking dark, one small spot of smoldering warmth in the damp cold of a waterfront night. Finn had given up cigarettes decades ago, but the old longing stole over him like it always did. One more smoke for old time’s sake, what could it hurt? He wanted the comfort ...
The motorcycle whispered to Twig as they zoomed past the shipyards at the south end of Moretown Bay. Home. Tucked safely inside her helmet, the tips of Twig’s long ears quivered in response to the motorcycle’s rumbling voice. She felt its yearning not only in the subtle change in its ma...
The cat had the same smell as the woman who’d poisoned him and turned him into a dog, and then a rage so pure and red took over his senses, that he was pretty sure he’d lost his mind. Again. Now here he was, sprawled on top of a woman who looked sort of like the woman who’d poisoned him, but she ...
I popped in a CD – The Best of the Doobie Brothers this time – and cranked up the volume to keep me awake, same as always. I stopped by Starbucks for a grande decaf latte, same as always. Took the freeway to where I-80 merges with Interstate 395, that grand old mess of looped interchanges and exi...
Thin and blonde and dwarfed by the guitar case strapped on her back, the girl’s shoulders hunched as if the weight of the world rested on her fragile bones. Her age was hard to judge. Gretta would have thought her young, but the ashy emptiness she brought in with her like winter fog made her seem...