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“Good night, Phil.” “Good night, Joe.” The two security guards parted ways. Joe was going home, his shift having ended, while Phil was just starting his shift. It was ten o’clock at night, and Phil would be on duty until the crack of dawn. When he first started this job, a few months ago, working [...]

“Leslie” by Mark McKenzie (Author’s Note: Technically, the following isn’t really a “short story.” Everything that I’ve written here is true and really happened. The story is kind of rough in places, but I guess truth is harder to write than fiction.) The day before she entered my life was, no doubt, an ordinary one. [...]

Putting together a novel is a bit like putting together a jigsaw puzzle: it takes a while to figure out the picture that’s being constructed and where the pieces should go. To extend that analogy a bit further, for me, it feels like I can only see half the pieces — the rest are turned [...]