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What Hell Is Not

Alessandro D'Avenia, translated by Jeremy Parzen

"They are children like all children. But they have the uncontrollable sneer that strays have on nights when the sirocco blows."


The Woman Inside

E. G. Scott

"My wife and I are different types of liars. It’s one of the interesting things you learn after nearly two decades of marriage."


Crucible

James Rollins

"Gray chased after him, pausing only long enough to pull a SIG Sauer P365 from an ankle holster."


The Current

Tim Johnston

"At the front desk they told him she was in the ICU but when he got there they told him she'd been moved to the third floor, and when he got up there the girl at the desk said visiting hours were over and she was sorry but there was nothing she could do, he'd have to come back in the morning."


An Anonymous Girl

Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

"As I stare at the laptop in the unnaturally quiet classroom, I feel kind of anxious."


Here and Now and Then

Mike Chen

"“You made it.” The man reached over for a handshake."


The Liar’s Room

Simon Lelic

"The pregnancy, which was horrendous. Not like before. Not like the first time. Somehow with Emily everything was different."


Wanderer

Sarah Leon, translated by John Cullen

"The first days passed in silence and intense cold. No stove, no fireplace was able to relieve the dampness in the dwelling or heat it sufficiently."


Tear It Down

Nick Petrie

"Coyo had found them an old four-door Buick Skylark, janky as hell with the maroon paint faded and peeling off the hood and roof."


No Sunscreen For The Dead

Tim Dorsey

"Late one night in the state’s largest retirement community, a sixty-eight-year-old woman and her younger boyfriend were arrested for having public sex in the town square."



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