Ride the Lightning
The reporter took a painful jolt from a police taser. Now he craves electricity like a drug.
Our House
The new house seems to be in love with its occupant. Unfortunately, it hates his wife.
Bone Lake
Ever since big Joseph lost his family to the lake, ice fishing season hasn't been the same.
The Gray Place
There is nothing like an exhumation to relieve guilt.
The Pound
Even a streetwise dog can be fooled by the charms of a little girl.
Spice of Life
What would you do if you dreamed of a way to live forever?
Tweaking
A disgusted reporter has found a way to make the pedantic editor suffer into the afterlife.
The Last Mile Home
McAbe knows the drive home so well, he could do it with his eyes closed.
Fingerdance audio
Read by the author, who may have been drinking.
I took a young lady for a drive up Mount Washington to impress her with my romantic nature. Instead, I was a white knuckle wreck of a man as I crept up the mountain as slowly as I could, daunted by steep drops on either side of the car. I gritted my teeth and swore from base to summit. I wasn't thinking about whether we would plummet and die; I was hoping it would be quick and relatively painless. Honey may be the only story I've written inspired by sheer cowardice.
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“Fingerdance” is the tale of one man's love of late sleeping and his reaction to a powerfully catchy tune. I wrote it because I sleep like the dead myself. I occasionally wonder if I will rest so comfortably when that sleep is eternal or if some fool will come along and awaken me from the everlasting snooze.
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“Legend” is the story of a man driven to madness at the loss of his beloved. The very day he buries his wife, Mr. Dean fancies he hears her voice over the two-way radios the couple shared in happy times. But what is she saying? I wrote this story, I suppose, to externalize my own frustrations over the unbending nature of death, and the seeming unfairness of its hand.
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