At the age of seventy-three, Florence felt she understood death. She didn’t really know very much about it, but she had heard the word. She had lost people. So she had some memory of it, some vague notion of yearning for souls lost. There was no sunlight in this barn. No clear road. She felt […]
Doctor Fog
DOCTOR FOG WARNING: the following story contains subjects that some readers may find distressing. “Do you remember, Kenneth?” they would ask. Therapists, police. “Do you remember what happened that night?” I remember. I was six. Six years old. How, at six years old, do you say that you remember so clearly – as clearly as […]
Cards
CARDS The noise of the club made it difficult to hear. Johnny tapped Rex on the shoulder, and shouted in his ear. “You got everything?” Rex took off his glasses, checked the plastic film on the back of the lenses, pointed to them, then replaced them on his face, and nodded. “You seem nervous,” Rex […]
Bernice
Bernice sprinted out of the glass doors and pounded across the parking lot. She allowed herself the luxury of a glance at the glass-walled walkway between the two halves of the shopping mall, nodded, and started off again, running towards the crossing. Officer Bostaph came out a few seconds later, following her trail carefully. As […]