Charlie had found him half-dead and gibbering like a madman. But whereas the man couldn’t stop yapping before, now he wouldn’t say a word. He’d gone quieter than a nun at a nudie...
BANG. The forty-five caliber bullet exited the muzzle at a speed of over a thousand feet per second. Less than a second later, it punched through the gnarled bark of a Sitka Spruce tree and sent out a shower of splinter...
The old ones tell stories of a time before the scourge when girls were born just as often as boys. They say a lot of crazy stuff that no one believes. A time before the scourge among them. Like there ever was a time different than now.
Mom always worried about Uncle Albert working so much for being as old as he was. I didn’t know exactly how old that was because he never said a number, just that you were as young as your back was limber and your brain was...
I looked over my shoulder and fear shocked me like I’d shuffled around in wool socks on shag carpet for a whole month and then licked my finger and touched a metal door...
“We would look so fab glam with first place gold medals draped around our necks. Like here’s your passport,” she made a stamping motion with one hand, “and now you’re in Paris walking down a runway with a giant purple hat that looks like an octopus made out of ping...
