
By the time the August sun dropped over Charleston, South Carolina, the sky looked like it had been set on…

The night the storm rolled over the Michigan suburbs, the sky looked like it was tearing itself in half….

At 7:52 p.m. in a Manhattan operating room, a scalpel flashed under harsh white light while, five miles downtown, a…

On the night everything changed, the Los Angeles sky was the color of a computer screen right before it dies—flat,…

By the time the taxi dropped him at the top of Acacia Lane in Los Angeles, the California sun was…

On a hot Thursday evening in Atlanta, under the humming fluorescent light above the back door of a Kroger on…

The beer bottle slipped from Brandon’s fingers and thudded into the beige carpet of my brother’s Ohio living room a…

By the time the foreclosure notice turned to soggy pulp on the front door of the small Houston house, a…

“Don’t you dare come out when my guests arrive. Get back to your room.” The voice was sharp enough…

By the time the elevator doors slid open on the twenty-seventh floor of the glass tower in downtown Houston, AJ…

The knocking started before the sun came up, sharp and insistent, rattling the quiet of my little American suburb just…

The night the truth began to crack open, the lights of downtown Los Angeles flickered across the bedroom wall like…

The first time the ambulance lights painted the front of the Taylor mansion in flashing red and blue, the neighbors…

The Oregon sky was the color of a bruised pearl when the taxi door swung open and I stepped onto…

By the time the sun went down over California, USA, in the summer of 1985, people were doing something they…

By the time the quiet cleaning lady stepped into the glass-walled conference room on the twenty-second floor, every American flag…

The veil lifted like a white wing against the immaculate blue of a California sky, and for a heartbeat the…

By the time the senior manager’s latte hit the floor and exploded across the polished tiles, Sally Wright was already…

The night my wife died, there was still glitter on the floor from a second-grade science project. I remember that…

By the time I saw the man in my kitchen, it was already too late to pretend life was ever…