The Devil’s Creek

“It happened like this,” Mark started to explain, but the odds weren’t in his favor. My grandmother was a human lie detector.
“So I was just walking by your house, you know, because I know Tommy’s visiting, and I think, no—Mizz Thornburg, I know I heard something splashing in the water, and my momma always [...]

Caps, Courses, and Coverup

My bad. It’s been ages since I’ve posted (like two weeks maybe), but if you had my job, you’d let it slide. Anyway, I’m also taking two courses: one on copywriting for ads and technical writing. In this economy, education is good, even if you don’t have ways to pay for it On [...]

Finding Fairytales

The stomach butterflies were coming, and they weren’t good. Not like when she saw Jimmy Lascher walking down the hall at school.
Jane Kennedy feigned a scream into her pillow. After all, it was 12:30 a.m.; too late to scream, not too late to be arguing, apparently. What Tom and Susan McCullough upstairs don’t understand [...]