A boy who collects other people's forgotten birthdays · his own memory · remember his mother's
Every year the water takes a little more of the pier and gives back exactly one thing. Every year the water takes a l...
She left it burning out of habit, not hope, but the shape at the end of the driveway didn't know that. She left it bu...
He hadn't sounded it in years. He wasn't sure it still worked. He tried anyway. He hadn't sounded it in years. He was...
A retired lighthouse keeper · the tide itself · keep one light burning
The letter was two days late and forty years overdue. The letter was two days late and forty years overdue. The lette...
Nobody noticed the bees were gone until the orchard stopped arguing with itself. Nobody noticed the bees were gone un...
He translated the last sentence out loud, twice, so someone besides him would have heard it. He translated the last s...