The pounding hooves charged toward Henry. The horse stood on his hind legs as if bitten by a snake and the frightened horse careered into the blizzard. Snow merged with soot in Henry’s lungs. He rubbed his red eyes. Is this a dream? Piles of mashed potatoes and bowls of beef stew beckoned. A three-tiered yellow cake…

Ethan told stories. Not lies really, but strange stories about things that could only be seen just as your eye blinked. He was only ten, too young to know about such things. But when he said, “Guess what I saw,” everybody listened. Even sometimes teachers in his classes. “Guess what I saw,” he said one…

Zeli sat under the gloaming tree, listening to the cicadas hum their twilight song. She felt the warmth of the sun slipping away, the breeze shifting from day to night as the cool began to settle. She ran her fingers along the smooth, unhatched egg that sat in the earth beside her. “It was impossible…