The sky was clear and pale that July morning in Anaheim, California. Michelle covered her brow with one hand and shifted her weight to her hip. She wore white plastic sunglasses and she kept her brown hair back in a white, loose scrunchy. James stood next to her wearing jeans and a Padres cap. He [...]
The streetlamps ended as soon as the road turned into highway and snaked around and over the evergreen dense mountains. Alan gripped the steering wheel of the old Ford sedan with two hands and drove at a pace adequate enough to keep up with the luminescent road signs, which slipped past his headlights one after [...]
George pushed his glasses firmly to the bridge of his nose. He hunched over the freestanding wooden chopping block in the center of the kitchen. The morning paper lay open in front of him and his cup of coffee produced a thin, dissipating vapor. Outside birds sang to each other in the violet half light [...]