The Seventeenth Sign
Heavy rainfall douses the wooden porch as rivulets of red drain in between the boards. Her eyes open to the feeling of rain hitting her exposed legs. Her long…
The Fourteenth Sign
Martha lets her Great Pyrenees out, but regrets it and shouts for her dog to come back, but it’s too late; Kumquat has already found it. Lush overgrown green…
The Thirteenth Sign
Mark recalls having dinner with Sally, the night she started showing the signs. The flushed skin around her throat still glows in his mind. Had they not been…
The Twelfth Sign
Sally sits at her desk, as the news-ticker across the bottom of the TV reports of death, but there’s good news, too. That is on the screen now. Yellow suits…
The Eleventh Sign
Smells of pine and dead leaves fill Nathan’s nasal passages. The mold throughout this forest will be the death of him, he believes, if he can’t find his way…
The Tenth Sign
Groceries are all over the floor as her son walks into the kitchen. This wasn’t good. It usually takes his mom 2 minutes to put away groceries, especially…
The Ninth Sign
Sally saw the photograph in the newspaper that morning. She saw it and thought, “God, that’s an amazing photograph.” It was awful, but profound, and it…
The Eighth Sign
This was going to be Pulitzer material, he thought. The photographer can’t look away, and must always hit the shutter. To his dismay, he left the camera bag in…
The Seventh Sign
The first time Sally saw the footage, she drank an entire mug of hot tea, scalding her mouth. She didn’t realize her mouth was bleeding until later. The…