On Santa Catalina Island, a winter tourist discovers the scattered bones of two bodies on an almost-vertical mountainside, high above the town of Avalon. He contacts the Los Angeles County

Will living in big cities drive you crazy? Just ask commercial artist Charles Colgrove. In 1951, under psychiatrist’s orders, he flees his suburban Long Island home and job in New

Open any door of a house along a dead-end street on Santa Barbara’s West Side and you’ll find lives full of desire, rage, loss, joy, and chaos. This collection tells

"These stories are like finding a classics channel movie and a film you’re sure you’ve seen before: familiar, real. Vaguely, you’re sure of the ending. In black and white, you’re

Tony Matteson kills the man, crushes his skull with a heavy glass water pitcher. The Untouchable, one of the elite, has attacked Tony’s girlfriend, Fox Slade. But the couple knows