Author Archives: T

For a long time I couldn’t see her at all. Just the dark, and the brown water, and the rain coming sideways through the streetlight. Then the volunteers in the rowboat got […]

Roger banged his little gavel like it could make the question disappear. “This meeting is adjourned,” he announced. “You can adjourn the meeting,” I said. “You can’t adjourn the public record.” I […]

For a few seconds, nobody touched the box. Then Brett reached in, pulled out a handful of pages, and his bluster started to wobble. “These are — what is this?” he said. […]

Holloway laughed, but it came out thin. The board members glanced at each other. “Dana,” he said, “I think you’ve had a little too much of the good champagne.” “I haven’t had […]

I sat down. I don’t know exactly when. One moment I was standing with my coat on, and the next I was in the chair by the bed, and the nurse had […]

The judge sat down, opened the file, and then she stopped. She looked at me the way you look at a word you can’t quite place. Then her eyebrows went up, just […]

Preston set the pen down. Marcus Bell has that effect on people; forty years of being the calmest man in the room will do that. “Who are you?” Preston demanded, recovering. “This […]

“You probably don’t remember me,” he said again. “Theo. Theo Brandt.” And then I did. Fifteen years fell away in the cold doorway, and I saw a skinny boy in a thin […]

The bell over the door was still ringing when Ruth looked up. She had a half-finished bouquet in her hands — ranunculus, I’d learn later, her favorite, the ones she always pushed […]

The first voice out of my phone was Preston’s. I’d turned the volume all the way up and held it to the microphone, and his voice rolled out across that town square, […]