Yet as she gazed out into an ocean that seemed to beckon as an unknown singer sang a song of longing, Beth felt suddenly as if she had been the one to place the...

She was 16, a kid from a family with four kids, three girls and one boy, and she had been kicked out of every place but one. She had been kicked out of the...

Even her own house felt more like an alien construct. Its wood siding was dark and coarse, its windows dark and small. Its shutters and door, the shelves of books and the walls of...

Staring back at her, the man’s lip trembled and he muttered, “How long will you play that stupid girl for, anyway?” As Dorothy stepped back, he flung the plate of food across the room,...

He felt...sick. "What...wrong with you?" The dog's eyes went on watch him, its tail wagging. "Where...can I go? And who...are you?" The dog was silent and just kept on watching. "I don't understand." The...

I went to the bathroom to piss but before I turned on the tap, I saw her sitting in the corner, leaning towards me. Her eyes shone, like a flame. I didn’t know what...

Mummy turned to the girls. “You’ve got that long drive ahead of you, so now let’s head out, shall we? I want you to have all the fun that you can in the car.”...

I can’t remember which one it was. “I miss you.” I whisper to myself. My mom says I cry over nothing. It’s not true. I do cry over the things I miss. “The smell...

Auntie Annie was the first of our maternal uncles and, as I like to tell you, she was my first aunt. She married my father, my mother’s brother, and she had three children with...

But Dorothy didn’t move. And just then O’Hara stopped his tirade when he saw Dorothy. His eyes widened, his mouth dropped open. “I see you,” he said to Dorothy as if she had never...