The Lightning Summer
Seventy-two years later, Margaret could still smell the chlorine mixed with rain. She sat on her porch rocker, watching her great-granddaughter Emma splash in the backyard pool, an...
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Seventy-two years later, Margaret could still smell the chlorine mixed with rain. She sat on her porch rocker, watching her great-granddaughter Emma splash in the backyard pool, an...
Leo loved two things more than anything: playing spy and hitting his baseball in the backyard. Every afternoon, he'd sneak behind the big palm tree leaning against the fence, press...
Martha sat on her garden bench, where Abraham the old golden retriever lay panting at her feet. His gray muzzle matched her own silver hair. At seventy-eight, Martha had become som...
Martha knelt in her garden bed, knees cracking softly as she reached for the tender spinach leaves. At seventy-eight, her body reminded her daily of the decades spent in motion, bu...
The zombie apocalypse could wait. Right now, Maya had bigger problems. Her face, illuminated by monitor glow, stared back at her—the dreaded Buffer Wheel of Doom spinning like a c...
Margaret stood at her kitchen window, the same one she'd looked through for forty-seven years, watching the fox that visited each dawn. He was a handsome creature with russet fur a...
Barnaby was no ordinary bull. While other bulls contentedly grazed in green pastures, Barnaby spent his days gazing at the sky, dreaming of soaring among the clouds. His heavy hoov...
Martha sat at her kitchen table, the iPhone her granddaughter had given her glowing with another video call. She'd resisted at first, but now those little screens became her lifeli...
In a cozy cave at the edge of Whispering Woods lived Barnaby, a bear with a very unusual dream. While most bears were busy hunting for berries or catching fish, Barnaby wanted to p...
Maya's hair refused to cooperate that morning, frizzing into a chaotic halo around her head like she'd stuck a fork in an electrical socket. She tried to tame it with her mom's exp...
Elena hadn't been back to the apartment since the breakup, but the key still worked in the lock. She was feeling like a zombie lately — moving through her days at the marketing fir...
The goldfish wasn't supposed to die. It was supposed to be Ms. Henderson's classroom pet for, like, ever, but apparently "forever" meant "until Maya babysat it for the weekend." No...