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A Better Mousetrap, and the One After That
By Justin Stanchfield
"Douglas Wilson loved the laundry.
Not the work or the steam, or the lousy trustees strutting like
bulls. And he hated the smell of bleach and the funk of ten thousand
dirty socks waiting to be boiled. Fact is, he hated washing clothes
altogether.
Confession for a Heart of Stone
By Eric M. Witchey
"Hard, ancient eyes watched from on
high. A crying acolyte, a boy of no more than twelve summers, ran
from the cathedral. Wrinkled, white shirt tails flapped over black
trousers. Innocence would never return to the church. "
"'It's simple, how the three of us went
down to the old tunnel that day to play, how we found the box and
what was inside. How Cecil went first, then Freddy a few days after
that, and then how it came to be my turn."
