Less than two feet high, of a simple design, the roadside monument was like the thousands of others that dot the rural South and elicit a sympathetic what a shame or intemperate thoughts of just desserts for rowdy youth. A car accident, a life, or lives lost, honored with a folk art cross so crud...
He was in fine fettle, purring at me in the darkness while perched on the edge of my pillow. Actually, he sort of covered the pillow, but draped across it to tap my face with an indolent paw. Cats really understand the value of stagecraft. He wanted me to wake up for any incoming spells, but he w...
There was no catharsis with the truth, only a realization that more good people were now painfully aware of another unseen threat to their lives and children. It was an act I reviled. I reached for my water, but Suma moved first, ever the healer, and guided the straw to my mouth. She also spoke f...
Looking at the clock, I saw I’d slept nearly nine hours. The moon would rise soon, so I stepped gingerly to the floor and, for the hundredth time in a day, missed the presence of Gus. He was still at Gran’s after her announcement that no giant, slothful cat would be permitted to interrupt my rest...
Saavin said. French stood next to her, stricken with the kind of commonplace awe they’d experienced on a daily, and even hourly, basis. Before them sprawled a series of tubular openings spanning nearly a mile of open cavern. The rims were fouled with detritus, a noxious cloud hanging in the air. ...