Category: Stories

The morning the man in the black suit appeared in my yard, I was standing barefoot in the kitchen, counting coins on the table and pretending I wasn’t scared. There were exactly…

I got married and had no idea who I was really living with under the same roof. When I moved into Victor’s house, I told myself the strangeness I felt was normal….

When I say I stood by my husband, Dan, 32, through everything, I mean it in the most literal way. When he lost his job a year into our marriage, I picked…

At first, I thought it was a coincidence. That was what I told myself on Monday morning when I saw the gray car parked across the street, slightly off to the side,…

The fluorescent lights buzzed faintly overhead, flickering now and then, matching the steady throb blooming behind Emma Moore’s eyes. The headache had been growing since early morning — a slow, pressing ache…

I was 36 and tired to my very core. Five years earlier, I’d buried my wife, and after that it was just me and my daughter, Juniper, learning how to be a…

I’m 81, and until a few weeks ago, I thought I had already buried everyone I ever loved. First my husband, Walter. Then my daughter, Eileen. Same accident. Same phone call. Same…

My name is Daphne. I’m twenty-nine, and until last month, I thought being useful was close enough to being loved. I’d always been the one they called when things fell apart. I…

Do you think you have crazy relatives? Well, let me tell you about mine, and you might change your mind. Harry and I had been married for seven years, together for nearly…

I didn’t plan on talking to anyone that night. The bar — if you could even call it that — sat at the edge of a dimly lit street like something forgotten….