Horror

Cherry

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The suburb was a dead giveaway— too many people, too few people, elm trees, a jack-o-lantern on a porch with its mouth caved in. A street that exists...
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Cherry

III. The Body Box - Part Three

The roads got smaller. County to rural. Rural to gravel. The gravel to a dirt track with grass growing in the center strip. The truck barely fit —...
Cherry

III. The Body Box - Part Two

He asked questions. I let him. "How long?" he said. About an hour after I got in. "I don't know." "A week? A month?" "Longer than a month." "How much...
Cherry

III. The Body Box - Part One

The truck was a Peterbilt and the cab smelled like coffee and diesel and one of those pine tree air fresheners that nobody believes in but everybody...
Cherry

Where the Heart is?

‘On the wrong side of the tracks ‘ was what came to his mind when Martin looked upwards at the huge granite building looming darkly. The melting snow...

ALL SYSTEMS GO!!!!!!

All Systems GO! I woke up late this morning, when I opened my eyes, it was 07.24am. I knew I was at work later in the afternoon, and I had a long...

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3. When we send our children to school to make lifelong friends, learn French, German or Spanish. For our children to learn lifelong skills like,...
Cherry

Rehearsel

I found a bone in the yard last week that fit my hand too well. I told myself: coincidence. I told myself: the world is full of things shaped like us...
Cherry

Snap Decision

I find her reading glasses on the counter where she always left them, beside the bowl she used for keys she never found again. I find the knife she...
Cherry

"I'm Not Finished."

Three days after we put her in the ground, I heard her voice in the kitchen - not a memory, not the echo grief makes of the dead, but her voice, her...