It was Saturday afternoon and Shay was still at the breakfast table when she heard something scratching at the back door. She…
After dark the twisting lights had died and fog had risen, a shroud across the street market. Throngs of daytime vendors and…
The rail yard was not a safe place for kids, but try telling that to the kids. The moment something is off limits, there they are, riding their bikes around and competing to see who can throw glass bottles the highest. Where the train cars were parked in chains they hid baubles and notes, poked through…
Louis set down his carpet bag on the asphalt and surrendered. His shirt clung with sweat and the day gripped him in its hot fist. He was…
For days the rain beat on the leaf litter and turned the pond into a nervous, irritable thing. Winter was overtaking autumn and the frogs and toads had all settled into the mud. The curlicues and bubble trails of the fish and minnows were already growing sluggish. Cold though the mornings were, there were turtles…
The last train rattled into the night and left an empty platform behind. The faint light from within caught the thin, knotty limbs of the trees that hugged the tracks, and then it caressed the dark interior of the tunnel that would take the train beneath the hills. Behind his glass window the ticket…
