Short stories from the borderlands of the American West. Body Count. Horse Stealers. Killing. The Bull of the Quarrel is Rising. Running. Mafia Western. Raid on a Cafe. The Contract.
Last Sun of Krypton, Part 3 (of 3). "If Lyla had still been there to talk him out of it, Kal knew that he would never have even suggested this solution, let alone volunteered for it. He stood alone in the middle...
Many books have been written about the query letter. But few have been written by literary agents, who receive thousands of queries each year and who grapple with them on a daily basis. Even fewer books have...
"What could happen next besides gravity, besides the falling? The windshield smashed. Glass shattered, grains of glass hung suspended in confused air. Seconds elongated. Their guts compressed like they were...
It’s not often that you get to see what happens when a modern day writer attempts to rewrite a literary masterpiece using a laundromat as his setting and talking clothes as his characters. This is probably...
One man goes to Tokyo to end the world. It goes fairly well. As a Japanese cult gets ready to stage a massive attack, they are forced to recruit a secretive young bio-chemist from the West. They hide out on...
"Single" contains two previously published short stories: "Miss Tennessee" and "The Cryerer," which first appeared in The Land-Grant College Review and One Story, respectively. Both appear in "Why They Cried,"...
Victoria Hudson is 29 and lives in the kind of small town where everyone knows everyone else. She has two great loves in her life -- her cat, Mister, and reading books from her used bookstore. She doesn't see...
A colleague working abroad begins mailing copies of disturbing documents home to a friend he left behind in the UK. The content of the information revealed to the reader becomes wide and varied covering how...
Dorian is the head of a lab researching a breakthrough technology for the treatment of those suffering emotional trauma. But one night he decides that this not-quite-ready-yet treatment would be the perfect...
When a girl named Vienna moves away for her and her families protection, the thing that ruined their lives once before has followed her tracks and has no mercy. Vienna finds herself in a load of trouble and...
Naming your main character Tom means something in American literature. The Ghosts' of Sawyer and Joad haunt that character from page one. But in The Letter, instead of hiding behind the memorable characterizations...
