“Helpless” by Séamus Scanlon
“In Eyre Square the boy Victor waited, watching the front entrance of the Great Southern Hotel. The bells of the Abbey church struck 2:00 am in the rain-solaced silence.”
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“The Sparrow” by Kristen Petry
The sparrow literally dropped through the flue into Helen’s cold fire place at just barely daylight. At first, she thought she imagined it.
Edgar Award Nominations and Wins!
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“In the Cloud” by Mark Budman
“Good morning, love. I guess it’s morning, though it’s hard to tell. It’s just too dark all the time now . . .”
“Tennis” by Michael Morshed
“Fifteen-love,” Georgia says then serves.
“Cutting Corners” by Dick Carmel
Blades reached her just as the light at State and Washington turned green . . .
“The Time Minnie Was Decapitated” by Lauren Stahl
I am running behind on dinner thanks to a last minute work emergency and bumper-to-bumper traffic on the interstate . . .
“My Hypoglycemic Son and ADD Wife” by Shelby Raebeck
“Suzy, did Lucas have Lucky Charms again for breakfast?”