Dead Ringer
Kate Kessler
"Some days, like people, were assholes. For Agent Rachel Ward, the eighteenth of May was the biggest asshole of them all."
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Open Your Eyes
Paula Daly
"Another year of my life . . . wasted. All that work. All that time I’d devoted when I could have been doing something else. Something more productive."
In The House In The Dark Of The Woods
Laird Hunt
"After what felt like many minutes of walking, I stopped. I thought of calling out to Captain Jane or the first-folk man or anyone at all but could not make my lips move."
The Lady Killer
Masako Togawa, Translated by Simon Grove
"Last of all, the calloused finger that should one day have worn a wedding ring slipped and lost its grip. All contact with reality lost, she plunged to the earth below."
Delayed Justice
Cara Putnam
"Her words froze in her throat at the sound she would recognize anywhere—her uncle’s laughter echoing through the room."
“The Murder Ballad of Samuel J. McCarthy”
Eryk Pruitt
"Only faraway were there sounds—probably miles off, at the freeway—but they were as significant as shushes from a seashell."
Wrecked
Joe Ide
"Isaiah was meeting Dodson at the Coffee Cup, a neighborhood institution stuck between a dry cleaners and a Mexican market. He was nervous about it. They were going to talk about partnering up, the conversation long overdue. "
The Lies We Told
Camilla Way
"You think it’s going to be so simple, starting a family, and then when it’s taken from you, the future you’d imagined snatched away, it feels like a death."
Alice Isn't Dead
Joseph Fink
"The funeral was strange because Alice’s death had been strange. No cause of death. No body. No certainty."
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