On June 17, 2004, six students and two faculty members from Saint Ilia’s School for Gifted Girls were found dead. A not altogether shocking occurrence, as mishaps of the fatal variety often happen when one thousand powered teenagers are crammed under one roof, and with a fire conveniently destroying much of the school, there is […]

Steph doesn’t come into town much. When she does, she goes straight to the pub. Standing behind the bar, rubbing a thin towel on the inside of an empty schooner, Helen feels Steph before she sees her. Never been able to say what it is that makes her just know. She slips the phone out […]

Two days into Fosters’ Woods they found the skeleton. Ralph, Aaron’s pit bull, pulled it out of a tangled deadfall and rhododendron hell. The poor dog struggled, making groaning and scuffing noises, dragging his damaged hind legs through layers of leaf rot and dead tree debris. It was the densest stretch of vegetation they’d encountered […]

A new green mound of earth sits at the corner of 4th and Nicollet like a miniature oblong meadow. So bright against the gray expanse of the city. Ivory daisies bloom from it, begging the sun to slice through the smog. The Minneapolis Environmental Relocation Services have already arrived. A MERS worker wearing an offensively […]