Fire at Dawn I

"An excerpt from the ebook..."

She flipped the mask around to the back of her head. It looked like she had her face on backward as she led him by the hand up a little cobbled lane built in a century of donkeys and carts....

Across the Tracks

"Two anonymous strangers find a way to pass the time while waiting for their trains"

It's almost three in the morning. The summer night air is warm, but comfortable. A gentle breeze stirs occasionally. Crickets drone steadily, and beneath that is the soft intermittent sighing of cars passing on the distant freeway. Moths flit fanatically...