HIS EYES were open five seconds before the alarm was set to go off. There was no effort in waking. It was sudden. Coldly conscious, he ...

After supper, they walked down to the lake and looked at its moon-reflecting surface. “Pretty, isn’t it?” she said. “Mmm-hmm.” “It...

X-- This day when it had light mother called me a retch. You retch she said. I saw in her eyes the anger. I wonder what it is a retch....

Pa's nose fell off at breakfast. It fell right into Ma's coffee and displaced it. Prunella's wheeze blew out the gut lamp....

The small man opened the door and stepped in out of the glaring sunlight. He was in his early fifties, a spindly, plain looking man wi...

The package was lying by the front door--a cube-shaped carton sealed with tape, the name and address printed by hand: MR. AND MRS. ART...

"Where do they all come from?" Reordon asked. "Everywhere," said Carmack. They were standing on the coast hig...

MORTON SILKLINE WAS IN HIS OFFICE musing over floral arrangements for the Fenton obsequies when the chiming strains of “I Am Crossing...

At 11:32 a.m., Mann passed the truck. He was heading west, en route to San Francisco. It was Thursday and unseasonably hot for April. ...