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The mirror behind the bar stared back at me, and under other circumstances, the morose face staring back at me would have made me laugh.  Th...

The burning light above her seared her corneas, and Tess tried to roll to her side to shield herself from the pain.  It took her a minute to...

"What do you want on your tombstone, Alice?" the Mad Hatter asked.  It was completely random, but Hatter was off his medications t...

"What the hell happened to us?" Laura was stretched out in her favorite chair, her neatly pedicured feet resting on the ottoman....

The sand felt clammy on her feet in the early hours of darkness.  The world was silent, except for the rhythmic murmur of the ocean as it ca...

"The bells of St. Brigit's are calling tonight," she said, as I tucked her blankets in around her. "Their mournful toll...

Clarissa's feet made no sound as she trod on dead leaves and other forest debris. The further into the woods she walked, the quieter the...

Jericho Jones stepped out of the rain and into the cramped bookstore, and took a moment to slick his wet hair out of his face and pull a rub...

Carl always seemed to leave the seat up on the time machine. Marion groused, she chided, she cajoled, and finally screamed at him over this ...

Zion Parker hated parties. Hated them with a passion usually reserved for sports rivalries and ex-girlfriends.  Now he found himself in the ...

"May Gratitude Be an unending  verse in the Everyday song of our lives, not only this single day. It is right that we daily sing o...

“Then the lights went out.”   Giggling, Conrad gave Mrs. Hardy one more whack with his hammer before he paused for a breath.   His crisp ...

"Will you catch me?"  That had been their game together.  Before each leap off of the monkey bars, Callie would holler those word...

Killian Frost was not the kind of man women gave a second glance.  He wasn't handsome, but rather nondescript and bland.  His neatly cut...

Karen could not pinpoint the exact moment that she knew she was being watched. It had been going on for months. Initially a vague uneasiness...

It was the blessed smell of pine that pulled my consciousness back to the surface.  There's nothing in the world like the smell of fresh...

Constance sat at the window in the dusty attic, watching the road.  She had been waiting there since Tuesday, but she had had nothing else t...

The second best day in Carly Joe Patterson's life began with the arrival of a lawyer.  She was in her new pajamas, sipping coffee on the...

Carolyn, Jake, and I had been sharing our dreams almost as soon as we could speak. We would spend hours during the summer, our backs on a bl...

Sally sat quietly in the restored 1920s hotel lobby, waiting for the limo which would take her to the chapel. Occasionally she would pat her...