For Ninety Years, One Light Burned Above a Mountain Town Nobody Dared Approach, Until the Night It Went Dark and Someone Finally Came Down…

The babysitter had already called twice before Detective Ray Caldwell noticed the part of her story that did not fit. “She is never late,” nineteen…

Part 1 The first thing they gave me on my eighteenth birthday was a plastic trash bag. The second thing was seventy-one dollars. The third…

she gave her last water to an old cowboy dying in the desert, never knowing he could save her family ranch from the man coming…

Part 1 The first suitcase landed on the porch hard enough to split the zipper. I watched one of my sweaters spill halfway onto the…

Part 1 The first thing my older brother said after Uncle Amos’s funeral was that I ought to sell the hill. We were standing in…

Part 1 At 9:42 on a Monday morning, six people disappeared from the company directory. I was one of them. There was no meeting. No…