“That was a long time ago. I don’t shoot people anymore.” The man with the dark-grey flat cap placed his beer glass down on their small corner table. “Are you…

Harold wasn’t even contemplating giving up. But Meghan was well beyond. Collapsed in the snow she gasped, “I can’t go on.” A pall of cold and exhaustion embraced her as…

Greta responded hesitantly, “No, I’ve never seen anything like that.” Seymour was still struggling with what he was trying to describe. “Me either.” Greta continued, “I don’t even understand what…

I didn’t think I’d get fired in my first week. But looking the whole thing over — I didn’t think I’d get the job. Although I had some experience cleaning…

“Don’t touch me!” Marcia hissed in reaction to the bump against her chair. “Geez, you’d think I was trying to steal your stapler.” Geoff playfully offered his innocent look and…

Harold paused at the dough rolling counter. “Is it crazy to want a fight?” His boss, a burly man named Mike, leaned against the other side, his gaze fixed on…

It wouldn’t be fair to say she lost due to not trying — even though she didn’t. Really, she had been trying for too long. In the past seven years…

Somehow I recognized the silhouette. Yet I can’t fathom from when or where. Or, perhaps it was simply the feeling that was familiar: a profound foreboding. The feeling had visited…

The driver was trying to make up for lost time, but should not have been taking the refrigerated truck through such a strong dust storm at night. When it overturned,…

Regardless of what you thought of him, 17 was too young to die. And irrespective of whether his death was a murder or suicide, or whether either was accidental, the…