One morning Finn Spica woke up alone. The family was gone. Absent were the young mother, the twins, grandpa – all gone. Mom did not take the kids and grandpa to the beach house vacation – leaving a day or two before dad’s job allowed him to get away; she did not go to...
… a tiger went walking through the town of Jackson, New Jersey. - The Lady and the Tigers, a news story By Susan Orleans … a 33-year-old electrician..., who with...teen accomplices was responsible for kidnapping, torturing, raping and murdering...young boys.... -...
Without the gift of flowers and the diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued at all, would be today unrecognizable. Archaeopteryx, the lizard-bird, might still be snapping at beetles on a sequoia limb; man might still be a nocturnal insectivore...
Soundtrack As Charlene rode in Freddy’s car, she still wasn’t sure if she should disrupt her whole life over one of Freddy’s hunches. Freddy worried about everything. He always had. But if they’d been found out, it really was just a matter of time before Frank Jr. did...