"The warning came by way of Kitty, shoved across the table with my rye, liquor splashing over the edge of the glass as her words hit me short and hard: 'Bobby Leone’s looking for you. Drink up and get out.'"

The Illustrated Woman

"She didn’t see him until it was too late to avoid him."

Trunk Space

"She goes out of her way to go to the high-end cinema, the one expensive enough to be slick and dark and quiet."

Matinee

"Vanessa saw it first, on a morning of freezing rain in early November when I wasn’t looking for anything but the way home."

Listed in the top ten for the Flash Monster 2021 contest.

The Lake Michigan Monster

"You know what really makes me mad, in the end—and with that hatchet sunk into
your skull, it seems safe to say we’re finally at the end—is that I wanted to be the first
one to go."

The First One

"The manual elevator in the Harrington Building arrived at the ground floor as if it were descending from an earlier time."

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