Rut
“The ass Brian slaps first thing Friday morning is not Beth’s. He thinks it is, from the moment he spots her, alone and counting her drawer in her khaki shorts, until the moment she squeals and turns around.”
Fiction
Nainaine of the Bayou
Young Nell wanders the swamps and flooded ruins of what used to be New Orleans, accompanied only by her dead grandmother.
The Watchers in the Dark
“Paul first saw the dark thing one night when he let Duke outside. It was there in the light that spilled from the kitchen, staring at him. Paul went stiff, every instinct telling him to turn and run, but the thing was gone.”
Toll Road
The Pike is long and perilous, patrolled by Catholic knights and the nationalist bikers of the Order of the Coming Dawn. Bayle might have stayed in the ruins of Pittsburgh, but he made a promise.