The Corrections

The Corrections

When Marcus was ten, he saw a man walk through a brick wall. He was late to his first period class at Wells Elementary and running through a downtown alley when he spotted a figure emerging from the side of Lakeland Hardware Store. The man wore a black suit with shiny...
The Queen of Diamonds

The Queen of Diamonds

“Honey, look.” Anamaria held out her smartphone for Jarvis to see. The screen lit up the backseat of the taxi as they rode down Park Avenue. She flashed the smile of a parent whose daughter had just landed a double axel. “Andrew Kirtchfield, forty-seven years old,...
The Talented Miss Ripley

The Talented Miss Ripley

One lazy Sunday afternoon, in a fifth floor Manhattan apartment, one simple act of appeasement unleashed a literary nightmare so harsh to the ear that many New Yorkers still recoil in anguish at its memory. The incident occurred at the home of Martha and Louis Ripley...
Klonk’s Assignment

Klonk’s Assignment

If Greg had known what momentous events the day would bring, he would have tried to get more sleep. But when the sisters hit the lights at Saint Bart’s Mission for the Homeless, he and his forty-nine roommates rose and stretched in unison, greeting the day with the...