My brother on my front porch wailing my name, soaking wet and without a jacket in the cold spring rain, with nowhere else in the world to go, wondering why I won’t let him in. My brother crashing at our mom’s house, preying on her weakness the way he always did; me calling her every […]

He remembered little of his father. He wondered if this lack of information was deliberate, and mutual. Sometimes a memory would surface and he’d be seduced into obsessive examination until he managed to bury it again. Gavin was due to take possession of his father’s estate in early November, but New England had a devastating […]

I stopped eating on a Sunday. It felt right. That most holy of days; the purging of fleshly desire laid bare on an altar of my own making. If there was any God lingering in the holy dust I carried in my lungs, I could taste nothing other than the emptiness I would craft for […]

There are eight of them, walking one behind the other down the cliff path, ordered smallest to tallest. Adam, the oldest, is nine. Corinne, the youngest, is six and tougher than any of them. She leads the way, she carries the stick, she takes two steps to everyone else’s one. Adam, at the back, carries […]