Improbably (or inevitably, depending on your disposition), the holidays are nearly here; that frenzied time of year where we turn our focus to family, friends, food, drink, debauchery and gifts.

You may already be planning out your days off, carefully constructing a card list for associates and relatives, deciding exactly what present you ( Read more... )

In the house next door, the one with the missing shutter, the old woman had begun dancing again. Adi could feel it, the woman’s feet shuffling across the floor, along the run of his back. A thousand steps in an old softshoe shoving him further into the sheets as he lay in bed, waiting for her to stop, flip the record, again begin. Sometimes it felt ( Read more... )