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Long Black Veil

Long Black Veil

by | Oct 30, 2016 | Short Story, W, William Wallace

Every midnight Katharine Lee Jackson appears like a ghost in the live oak and ceanothus scrub on the hillside above the Azimuth County Jail. +++++Speaking to no one, she drifts silently out of the darkness, a widow’s veil concealing her pale face. Sometimes the moon...
Blackout

Blackout

by | Aug 2, 2015 | Short Story, W, William Wallace

Shelby Winters, DDS, writhed on his sweat-soaked bed and groaned in his sleep. He turned onto his stomach triggering nausea and barely made it to the toilet before vomit spurted up his throat and out through his mouth and nose. +++++He’d managed to get blackout drunk...
Stand By Your Man

Stand By Your Man

by | Mar 12, 2015 | Short Story, W, William Wallace

Ike Stanton climbed into his F-250 and sneezed out the clots Jerry Miller’s fist had made when it broke the cartilage and capillaries in his nose. Fresh blood spattered the front of his shirt as he dabbed with his handkerchief. He looked up when the hiss of the...