It was late day in Santa Rosario, warm and muzzy and orange like a clementine. Randy Whitt walked home from the corner gas station with a...

Shel and I wake up simultaneously every morning, our eyes fluttering in synchrony. First thing, we share our dreams. ​ Shel dreams in...

It comes from having an older brother. ​ Brotherhood is a lawless fraternity, but even still my brother George was a rogue without peer....

Bethel Sykes had always been one to do good the bad way. It was like there was an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other and the...

“I hardly have a minute.” Denise was radiant as always, candy floss hair spun up in a midnight waterfall, eyes encrusted in purple dust...

For starters, I did not have access to an uncircumcised baby. Those are traditionally rather difficult to procure. I know a guy, but he's...

"Death is the province of fools," said Calibast, leaning deeply into the white, wicker chair. Roald snickered. "Everyone dies." "Then...

The first letter sat unopened on Lisbeth's kitchen table for a month. It was nondescript, lacking a return address or any identifying...

The letter didn't interest Bal so much as the fact that it even got to him in the first place. ​ "You are not an easy man to find," said...

Bertram wears his thinking cap. That's what I call it anyway. Really, it's just a silly little dog-sized Sherlock hat he lets me put on...

Isaac came aboard the Eurydice at Ganymede. He was part of the crew that installed the hyperbaric chambers in the Turner-Al Saad...

It was dizzying. Disorienting. Mireille felt herself inexplicably pulled downward by the dark gash in the crystal white. ​ And it was...

Wayne LaFell had never wanted a career in politics. Even as a 45 year old man with a wife, three children, and an underwater mortgage, he...

Nadia Reyes lives in this house. It’s not much of a house, but I suppose if it was anything to talk about I probably wouldn’t be standing...

Bassa, how the wind howls! How it plucks at my numb flesh with swarming ghost pincers. There is no escape in this white plain. The cold...

It all started with Aunt Esther. She was a pink, pork roast of a woman with a heavy, beetle brow and a remora mouth frozen in a wide oval...

The bottom edge of the painted textile sheath briefly caught fire as 0109011 walked past the low, stone basin of flame. ​ "Lady, watch...

Auggie lay horizontally across the leather sectional, his left leg elevated at the knee by thee goose feather pillows, the cast of his...

"It's Rory, you say?" Edmund rapped his fingers across the line of his jaw. "Rory Wentworth?" ​ The man on the other end of the line...

I remember my eleventh year the best. All the years previous to my eleventh were notable only for their monotony and repetition. But...