Category: News

Part 1 By three-thirty in the morning, the county hospital always looked like it had given up trying to be hopeful. The fluorescent lights hummed…

The note looked ridiculous on the black gas tank, a torn square of school paper trembling in the damp evening air like it had wandered…

Part 1 The hikers thought the tree was holding a scarecrow. It was July 12, 2013, just after noon, and the light above North Dome…

Part 1 The last photograph looked like proof the world was still arranged in ordinary ways. That was why Madison Blake’s mother hated it after…

By the time the little girl asked whether eating dinner tonight meant they would have to be hungry tomorrow, the whole diner had already been…

Part 1 When they found her on Highway 26, the truck driver thought at first that the road itself was trying to invent a person….

The fork was halfway to the pie when a small hand slammed down on the counter hard enough to rattle the plate. Coffee jumped in…

Part 1 The first crack in the world opened in kindergarten. September. October. November. December. Eleanor Vale had been five years old when she first…

Part 1 The photograph did not look real at first. That was what stopped Lydia Mercer, more than the subject itself. Old carnival images always…