Botched
Noelle One memory sticks. And she's waiting. I'm gonna get him. Not because it's right. It's because it's funny. He knows I have an aversion to bugs.…
Heart Killer, Book 1: Frances — Part 2
The important thing to take from this rambling autobiographical preamble is, I guess, my secret predilection, which has caused me no shortage of…
Headhunters
Shivering, sobbing, a nine-year-old boy lay flat on his stomach as his pirogue swirled downward through the Maranon River. "Shauror!" someone…
Heart Killer, Book 1: Frances — Part 1
January 1995 I hesitated a good while before finally deciding to go ahead and write this memoir, detailing the experiences of my life that led me to…
Teen Angel
Phil was having another one of those dreams at 3AM. Since he had turned twelve, he had been having nocturnal emissions, and since fourteen, he had…
Luminaria, Chapter 9: Balancing Act — Ith Daktar San, Part 2
And so, no one was sentenced to death that day. Nor even banished to the Red Moon. The Meditator Ith Rennat spoke the prisoners’ fates. “Lance Rey…
Armed Psychopaths and Bunny Rabbits
Approaching mid-winter. Shoveling the driveway to shoot hoops with frozen hands. Can’t bend your wrist, ball won’t bounce. That’s cold. Next day,…
Four Breams
Going with my mother to the Plaza del Mercado de San Isidro, in the Mataderos neighborhood, at the beginning of Carabanchel Bajo, in Madrid, the…
The Corporation
She filled out her work report, completed the termination form, and shoved it into the envelope before heading downtown to drop it off and pick up…
Careful What You Wish For
Jeffrey woke to the magnificent sounds of angelic birds. The sounds of the heavens, and all that hover above, filled his ears. The ability to open…
