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Marvin Turner had been running the store floor since seven that morning, and by noon he was ready to legally change his name to “We’re Out of Stock.” It was the Saturday before Christmas, so…

The last thing Henry Miller heard in his hospital room was the doctor saying he had “moments at best.” The words floated somewhere above him, distant and muffled, like someone talking through a wall. He…

Dr. Emma Pierce-Yates pulled into the driveway, bone-tired from another 12-hour shift tracking the Napier 9-2-9 asteroid. She hit the garage button and there he was, Aaron, in his favorite Star Trek pajamas, wearing a…

I picked up a notebook and a world of guilt opened up in front of me. Guilt so powerful that it warped the reality around someone that witnessed something horrible. — He told the detectives he didn’t…

The little bus was finally empty. Arthur watched them all leave, the ghosts and goblins, the superheroes and princesses, each one spilling out into the chilly night toward warm, lit houses. He guided the bus…

The expanse of a beach stretches out in front of me when figures start to appear. Then as the sun flared, the unmistakable sounds of a busy airport filled my ears. I saw a new…

I was laying awake during a violent thunderstorm. I would see the lightning and then count the seconds, the same way I have since I was a child. Close, less than a mile. Water hammers…

I opened the box, and saw cloud cover over a lighthouse as the waves broke against the rocks. I saw a group gathered at the base, and then I saw one of them answer his…

The 1972 Plymouth Duster, its Illinois plates dulled by road dust, rolled steady down the forgotten stretches of Route 66. Behind the wheel, Jake drove with a faint smile, humming tunelessly. He called it his…