I’d worked alone in a forest lookout for four years, but the morning my radio warned me not to answer my supervisor, someone started climbing the tower

The first thing Ethan Cole noticed was not the rain, or the black glass of the hotel entrance, or the billionaires stepping into cars they…

Part 1 The first truck arrived at six-fifteen on a wet Monday morning, before the fog had lifted off the creek and before my father…

Rear Admiral Nathan Whitmore stopped behind the woman at lane seven and watched her wipe dust from a rifle that technically did not belong to…

The beer hit Emily Carter before she ever saw the man holding the bottle. Cold foam splashed across the front of her gray hospital shirt,…

Part 1 The first time my grandmother told me the prairie could keep a person alive, I thought she was speaking the way old people…

THE NIGHT A MAFIA BOSS LAUGHED AND OFFERED A CHUBBY WAITRESS ONE MILLION DOLLARS TO READ HIS DEAD FATHER’S CODED LETTER, SHE TRANSLATED ONE LINE…