L inda came home and found me muttering in the dark. When she switched on the lamp, the illumination was blinding. “I’m glad you were able t...

I’ve always hated the smell of hospitals. The particular odor of death, urine, and bleach that’s unique to all hospitals and nursing homes f...

T he final trouble came down to one hundred dollars. To call Brenda a vampire would be giving her too much credit; that would bestow on her ...

3. A fter I got off the phone with Red, though, I was in no mood to growl at the kids for hitting my door. I was in no mood to growl at anyb...

P endleton hated my drinking; he grew up with parents who were rotten, miserable drunks that took their miseries out on him. Even after th...

H e was dead and buried for a month before anybody called to tell me. “I wasn’t s’posed to tell ya,” Red said through the phone. ...