I could hear the city coming awake out beyond the tree line that surrounded the park. “What’s this all about, Beth?” “I’m concerned about you.” I didn’t know what to say to that, so I said nothing. “Th...
This time I fell into a sleep so fitful and shallow that I drifted in and out of it with every blink. I dreamed in disconnected bursts, like a man flipping through cable television channels with which he was unfamiliar. Around nine a young girl in a nurse’s uniform woke me with a cup of very weak...
The flat panel monitor was big and white and it faced away from them so they couldn’t see what she was looking at, which left them nothing to do really but to watch Rachel while she watched the screen. Either that or look out the windows at the airport. Shepherd chose to watch Rachel. He hoped Ke...
Tay woke up with a conviction at the forefront of his mind that he now knew something he had not known before. He just didn’t know what it was. He rolled onto his side to get away from the sickly green glow coming from his alarm clock and tried to go back to sleep, but he soon realized that wasn’...
The melancholy voice of a young girl, heartbroken and mournful, spread over the black water like river fog. The air was unnaturally still. The world was wrapped in a thick, breathless darkness and no one moved for a long time. Eventually Bar raised his right arm very slowly until his hand was jus...