Cleo wasn’t entirely sure whose house the party was at. But she’d been here for hours already, and it was winding down. Now it was about midnight and she was pleasantly buzzed, sitting on the couch beside Andrew in a living room full of people. Some of them she knew, but some were total strangers. […]

The air was sharp and filled with the scent of pine trees as Iris made her way down State Road 122. It was mid-morning, maybe nine or so, and she wanted to collect a few pine boughs before it was time to open the shop. There was a little spot in the woods, just over […]

The bass rattled in Andrew’s chest as he picked his way through the mass of bodies, his beer carefully cradled in his hand. The band on stage was playing something sludgy and hard, music that seemed to drip from the speakers and coat the audience in its sound. This wasn’t Andrew’s usual scene and this […]

The jukebox blared over the sound of the crowd in Keegan’s Pub, announcing the unofficial start to another weekend. The first chords of some nineties country song – in rotation since it was a chart-topper – blasted out into the small, crowded bar and blended with the sounds of clattering dishes and rowdy conversation. It […]