After the ride-along they handed me off to these other two cops because I told them I was a writer, that I was writing a book. It...

Sadie can’t sleep, claims there’s a restlessness in the air, she can feel it somewhere, and it won’t leave her be. At night, she tosses and turns,...

“Come look at this,” Morton said. Sharon left her cubicle to look at Morton’s computer screen. “The chicks were missing from nest c27 this morning. I downloaded...

I recently sold all of my belongings and left Los Angeles. I was flip-flopping like a fish there. Like all the scales around my neck were hardening...

He was fifteen minutes late. She took a sip of her virgin cocktail wishing she still drank. The revolving restaurant showed her the city skyline and the...

Youth was a grand farmhouse on a hill, surrounded by fields of long grass and crops that spread in every direction for miles around, under the clearest...

The air was thick but cool on lonely Seagull Street in Camden, New Jersey. While crickets and cockroaches were the scourge in surrounding cities, gunshot and glass-breaking...

It was near the end of the year and Sunil could recall very little of note for the region except for West Indies winning the Champions Trophy....

Just a little Vaseline and my hands; that was how he said it to me. I was ten years plus when Chidi introduced me to this mystery...

Red light on his GoPro clicks on, and with one glove held in the air, signaling time out, Jay adjusts the bill of his hat with his...

There is something in the glass house that she cannot see. With each night passing, she walks down the glistening sidewalk, between panes of grass, under the...

I shot God right out of the sky. He poked his gray beard from between the white clouds, so I took aim and shot Him. He fell...

Two years since my mother died, and my sense of doom is almost as heavy as the suitcase I drag along. The stones of the gravel track...

Donnie never thought about what his father did. He knew his dad worked outside. And he knew he worked in the city. Sometimes his mother joked that...

When did I start looking backwards instead of forwards? When did the detritus of life that has been and gone – best friends, back gardens, strict teachers,...

Life turned around for Frederick Dorn in 1983. Tides shifted; planets realigned. His rich old friend, Preston Saxby, appeared at Dorn’s lowest ebb to offer a Manhattan...

You sit alone and naked on the cold rim of the bathtub with the syringe in your right hand, your dominant hand, the recommended hand. This is...

He scanned his surroundings: crest of a hill, edge of a forest, bank of a river. He craned his head back as far as his helmet would...

I still call him Daddy, even though I’m thirty-eight. He walks into the living room wearing his trench coat. I eye his bare, hairless calves and his...

They stood inside the broken iron gate and looked at the stones. Many lay rigid on the ground, but others projected upward: some straight, some listing at...

The bar is the type of kitschy you find within a five block radius of Times Square—faux-weathered beach signs (No Shoes No Shirt No Service) and billboard-like...

The full name of the place was 1 Night 1980 Hostel Tokyo, the entrance on a clean backstreet two dozen blocks north of Ueno Station. Elsewhere, the...

I know I said I wouldn’t email you anymore after you left but fuck it. The weirdest fucking thing happened to...

“It’s twenty-two hundred hours Eastern Standard Time on Sunday, the 27th of June. Coming to you live from the Bunker of Truth located on the bottom floor...

  The Lord Shall Provide  Genesis 22:8   The hunted becomes an object, and that object always knows that it is hunted. There’s a feeling it gets....

Sarita wiped the grime from the bathroom mirror, tied her hair back and rejoined her son Jesse in the lobby that smelled of diesel, processed fruit and...

Freddy was an ordinary lad.  He went to school every day, did his homework as diligently as any of the bumfluff-lickers in his year and attended his karate...

Like many wars, this one began with a simple miscalculation. “Here, kitty kitty.” Evvie stepped outside onto the bristly brown welcome mat that said “Rental Sweet Rental.” In...

Something’s bugging Ackerman this morning. But he doesn’t know what it is. But it’s sure pulling at him. So here’s the picture. Ackerman’s sitting at his desk...

“We knew what we were doing was wrong, of course.” Luke immediately knew that was a great opening line for a story. Its author did too. Freshman...