The alarm blared. It was a high-pitched, terrible beeping that filled all three floors of the house. Maddie leapt from the couch, her...

The black dog slept against the iron fence. Her torso raised and lowered with each heaving breath of her heat-induced sleep. Water...

The river pulled like an ocean. It had been many years since Ben had seen the current so strong. Each time his paddle sliced through the...

Jeremy had been trapped for 17 hours. Each time he moved, he wedged himself farther between the plaster walls. His shoulders ached, his...

We met in the rain. Yet, your hair wasn’t wet because you held an umbrella flush to your chest. The drops cut through the burning street...

At the end of a very long line of black poles and strung wires, a matte steel building rose above the red sand. The man, who was wearing...