The silver-haired doctor in his sixties assured me that when he went in through my chest to operate on my heart that the pain I would feel afterwards would be minimal, due to the state-of-the art advances of so-called ‘keyhole surgery’. Problem was that the ‘keyhole’ he spoke of was actually big enough to fit […]
Archive | September, 2008
Bait
The motion-detector lights outside the house snapped on bright, illuminating the foyer just seconds before the doorbell chimed. Mavis had been waiting in the dark. Rising from the couch, her bones creaking under her weight, she rewrapped the silk robe over her shower-fresh skin and cinched the sash tighter to nip her waist. The doorbell […]