“Everyone’s patience has its limits.” – Rampart
The fourteen tales that comprise author Amy Grech’s second collection of short stories, Blanket of White, are all
Like so many times since arriving on the East Coast, I realized that, for all the oohs and aahs I received back home for my accomplishments, they amounted
“Speaking from personal experience, I don’t recommend getting in touch with your dark side. Not healthy.” – Nan Vining
Pasadena Police Department Homicide Detective Nan
The usual principles of combat seemed useless when fighting an impervious enemy, an enemy that didn’t need sleep and that functioned on the compulsion to kill, and she
It was like suddenly getting a glimpse of a giant invisible hand turning the world. You were not supposed to see those kind of things. You were not
Someone is going to die. I sat in my car and felt that certainty pump through my veins. I took a minute to distill the violence into a
“I used to round up shopping carts in the parking lot at Wal-Mart. Then I met Ceepak and life’s been one big roller coaster ride ever since.” –
“So what we might have is a bunch of amoral whack jobs telling the other amoral whack jobs out there that it’s A-okay to murder, and then they
“Why was the onus always on the weak when it was the strong that had the liberty to act? Why were the weak obliged to be so brave
