Category: Fiction

Cleveland #6 After all these years of wishing to be invisible, you’d think I’d feel okay when it finally came to pass. But no, I view my seeming invisibility with the same sort of distress that I had previously viewed attention: the impetus is negative and I am somehow inadequate. So while the ability to…

The letters on the sign above the bakery were as willful as inanimate objects could be. Hugo and Loretta kept an attentive eye out in case the force behind the mischief chose to make itself known. It never did. They had never had any trouble with the “E” until last week. The “G” was another…

May told me something, Sarah says. My heart beats in stutters. Like I’m guilty. What did she tell you? I laughed. I shouldn’t have laughed. What did she tell you? It was her friend’s aunt. She died. You laughed at that? She died at her own forty-fifth birthday party. Why did you laugh? Sarah puts…

Pete Hautman did it! In November, our favorite local mystery writer won the 2004 National Book Award. One of the nation’s highest literary honors, it was awarded for Godless, Hautman’s twelfth novel. (It is his fifth Young Adult title.) He tells us that he is now paid $2,000 a word. We think he is joking.…

By the time she turned sixteen, there was little that Laurie Novak had not learned about survival. The many life and death lessons that a girl needs to know growing up in South Dakota were told to her by her father. The short, clustered buildings of her medium-sized hometown offered only a little protection from…