Evan Sam went to the student jobs office and looked up Dale’s work service record. He’d spent a lot of time doing janitorial assignments but had also logged a fair amount of time landscaping. His supervisor during those occasions was a groundskeeper named Evan Stahl. With the shadows lengthening, Sam picked his way through the […]
The Wife sits in a green vinyl chair next to Husband’s mechanical bed in the Oncology ward of Baylor University Research Hospital. Poison drips into his arm; professionals call it medicine. She snaps shut her Selected Stories of Alice Munro; the sound is like a snowball thudding against the glass, its flakes flying this way […]
Story Time Ms. Lee sat in a chair in the children’s section of the library. She had arranged third and fourth graders in a circle around her and was reading to them from a collection of nineteenth century children’s tales. “ ‘If you wet the bed again’,” Ms. Lee read in a cheery, singsong voice, […]
Herbert feared the intense pounding in his heart would explode from his emaciated chest onto the frozen field of his escape. The buckets of snow pouring from the black heavens were aiding his cause by covering his foot prints. This was the night he had waited for, a moonless sky, with weather projected to become […]