Did he say anything in the ambulance? Roosevelt asks, eyeing the other people in the waiting area. A teenager on crutches stares our way. Not much, I say, lowering my voice. He told the medics he was coming out of that dump bar on Third Street when s...
Next to him, in the passenger seat, his dog rumbled and growled first at the rain, then at the flashlight, the bobbing and glowing light-stick in the distance. Easy, girl. . . . Good girl, Ellis whispered, patting his dogs neck as they spied the two...
Watching cop shows on TV. Thats just so you can point out inconsistencies. Name a real form of entertainment. What was the last movie you saw? Or better yet He grabs the notebook-size steel case thats wedged between my seat and the center console. My...
. . . seven . . . six . . . five . . . The dog began to growl. She could smell death coming. But Ellis ignored the noise, peacefully reading from the bill of lading: the containers new tracking number, the receivers name (had to be fake) everything t...
For my mom, Teri Meltzer, who still teaches me how fiercely, how selflessly, how beautifully, a parent can love her child The story of Cain and Abel takes up just sixteen lines of the Bible. It is arguably historys most famous murder. But the story i...
