Rebecca could do no wrong. Gerald had heard about it his whole life. Rebecca got straight As. Rebecca was selected for first chair. Rebecca made the swim team.  And what had Gerald done? Nothing, according to his parents. But Gerald had done a lot. That morning, everything boiled over. When…

The remains of someone’s camp laid scattered across the uneven asphalt outside the old Acme grocery store. It looked like the occupants had lived there for a while, based on the number of jagged, dried out cans that were strewn among the broken chairs and cigarette butts. They’d been gone…

Three nights after Stewart first noticed the change, a visitor arrived. Wait, let me back up. I should start at the beginning. On Tuesday, April 23, Stewart Krawshank attached the solar filter and looked through his number 3 telescope at the Sun. This was a perfectly normal thing for Stewart…

The weather gets to everybody eventually. The weather and the isolation. And the same five faces staring at you over your corn flakes every damn day. Winters in Antarctica are no joke. We get three hours of sunlight a day, and the temperature routinely dips below -40. Even though there…

Dennis leaned against the back wall of the restaurant, smoking a Camel and enjoying one of the last cool nights of spring. “The heat’s coming,” Javier had said, just before stepping inside to confront the mound of dirty dishes that had appeared, as if by magic, at his station. Now…