It was a cold spring morning, the type of weather that can confuse the soul. I thought we were past all of this. Everything in ...

“Look here, Burger,” said Kennedy, “I do wish that you would confide in me.” The two famous students of Roman remains sat together in Kennedy’s ...

The following narrative was found among the papers of Dr. James Hardcastle, who died of phthisis on February 4th, 1908, at 36, Upper Coventry Flats, ...

Part I The tomb was not where it had been. That was Marcus’s first thought as he stood in the moonlit dunes, the wind scraping ...

Part I The candles flickered against the early evening air, their small flames dancing like fireflies battered by wind. One by one, they dimmed, their ...

Part I It had rained the day before they arrived, though the air that lingered along the hedgerows and cottages smelled more of earth than ...

Part I I first noticed something different in Owen when the heat broke and the evenings cooled enough to leave the windows open. There hadn’t ...

Part I We came to the cabin after everything else had fallen apart—not for a vacation, and not because we wanted to live a simpler ...

Part I I was never supposed to lead the Aravik survey. Officially, the initiative belonged to the Oceanographic Institute of Bergen, a multi-year study into ...

Part I Mason Firth watched the rural highway unravel in a slow curve through brittle grass and leafless oaks, the pavement cracking into patches where ...

Part I The gravel cracked beneath the tires of the rented Jeep as it slowed to a halt, dust rising in thick orange plumes that ...

Part I Dr. Neal Farrow stepped down from the rust-scorched cab of the Hilux, his boots sinking slightly into the orange dust as the wind ...