My voice was gone. The thing that came out of me wasn’t a word. It was a sound from Syria. A sound I’d…
You know, there are some tales that only get told when the fire’s burned down to embers and the world outside has gone…
My name is Warden Veronika Shaw. And for fifteen years, the mask has been my uniform. It’s forged from the recycled air of…
Jack “Bear” Lawson was at point. The heat was a physical weight, baking the black leather of his vest, but he didn’t feel…
The dream was so real I could smell the lavender soap she always used. My grandmother, dead for three years, sat on the…
You have to understand, a place like Rusty’s bar has its own rhythm. It’s a low hum of spilled beer, stale smoke, and…
No one corrected them. Not even Melissa, though she looked like her throat hurt, her face pale with a fury that wasn’t hers…
The silence that followed wasn’t just quiet. It was a vacuum. It sucked the air out of the room, pulled the Vivaldi from…
I screamed again, a raw, pathetic sound that died in the humid air. And that’s when I heard it. A twig snap. Not…
My world is divided into two parts. Before, and After. Before, I was just a father. A husband. A soldier. After, I became…