The Devil's Diaries

  I slipped into the booth across from Bryan, where he sat nursing a drink.  At his half smile I said i n a stiff voice, “Hi.” “Hi. You’re...

  I prayed to a god I no longer believed in and pressed the call button. The line never rang on his end. There was just his voice, saying,...

  The pen bothered me.  It was fat and filled with ink cartridges, from black to the colors of the rainbow. “Where’d you get this again?” I ...

  The message read, It’s over .  He then attached an itinerary for a flight reservation in my name from Madison to San Francisco, in one wee...

  The desert both fascinated and frightened Kitty. Every time her family came to Nevada, Kitty’s ten-year-old brother Jack would say in an...

  Ursula sent Andy a long email, in which she denounced him as an emotional cripple.  She also compared him to her father, who had never lov...

  “It’s about Mom," Jonah said. "What about her?" Jack asked, his eyes still glued to the television. "Did she burn an...