Air Debt
The beeping came at 0340 station time, which Irma Byrne had learned over eleven years on Meridian-7 was the hour the station liked to…
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The beeping came at 0340 station time, which Irma Byrne had learned over eleven years on Meridian-7 was the hour the station liked to…
I was twenty-three years old, I owned my own shop, and I was standing alone at a car show looking at a Camaro I had zero intention of…
The pager sat on the shelf by the door where it always sat, and I had picked it up and put it down maybe forty times by the time the sky…
Heath backed the stock trailer through the chute gate at a quarter past ten and killed the engine for the last time that season.
Thirty days of leave and nowhere to go.
Six months since Dev moved out, and I've gotten so used to the quiet that I sort of treat it like a roommate now.
The box sat on my porch for two days before I opened it, because it had my address on it and I wasn't sure whose it was.
For the record, I did not plan any of this.
I want to tell you I walked into that funeral with dignity.
I'd like to tell you I drove up to Gaborone that morning feeling calm and confident, but the truth is I'd been rehearsing what to say for…
The sedan had been rolling west on US-54 for about four hours when I decided the heat had cooked something loose in my brain.
The merger party ran long, the way these things always do.
The bike was still standing there when Desmond threw the rig in reverse, which in hindsight was the problem.
Annika Reynolds, twenty-nine years old and proud of it, pushed through the glass doors of the Shetland Ferry Terminal at five minutes past…
The elevator in the spice warehouse was old, the kind with a folding gate and a lever instead of buttons.
Tania Howell was thirty-four years old and she had been sitting in the Wagga Wagga airport lounge for four hours, and in that time she had…
My name is Oscar, I'm thirty-four years old, and I have been bound to a drawer full of stockings for the past three years, by a piece of…
*This one came from the idea of intimacy being stolen by a witness you can't see.
Liza arrived at the motel with her jaw already tight, which was mostly Chrissie's doing.
The litter index mapping walk had been my neighbor Kourtney's idea, and I still don't fully understand how I let her talk me into it.
The Clover Voyage, Vermilion Works, Laurel Stanza, Garnet Sonnet
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