I was sitting in the end booth minding my own business. I always mind my own business. The corned beef was on its way. After so many years, Jennifer knows what I want, and I’ve been on a serious corned-beef kick. The Clayton Diner’s known far and wide for its sandwiches, especially the kosher ones. […]
Mission Accomplished Men were wearing hooded cloaks and mumbling in Latin, their heads bowed in prayer. One of the men pushed back his hood. It was Mason Alderhut. One of the other men pushed a small, mangy boy wearing rags for clothes before Alderhut. The boy stumbled and fell, his hands trussed behind him with […]
Palm Springs is a pastel city. Everything in it has a tint of gray, its buildings, its furniture, the clothes worn by its people, and most of all, in their sexual proclivities-ambiguity. So, when they found Stoddard Wells dead, splayed out in a sterile alley near a large potted plant, in his only suit, wearing […]
The Devil’s Combe Despite Evan’s barely coherent directions, Sam found the Devil’s Combe and the section of electrified fence Evan and Dale had bypassed with jumper cables. He crawled under and began hacking his way through the overgrowth, down into a deep hollow. Fog rolled into the hollow off the Atlantic marine layer and billowed out […]