Charlotte Ephram, the bereaved widow, moves with her young son into the mansion of an estranged uncle.

Why would Jocelyn’s favorite aunt and uncle send her a doll from Italy?

Ed’s brother is dead, but why won’t he leave?

If you never met her, you’d think she was a real nice lady, yeah. Good with kids, never kicked no dog. Never sang a hymn out of tune. On Tuesdays and Thursdays she works down at the shelter, handing out socks and toothbrushes.

I go barefoot in my boots rather than take a single thing from Mona Luna.

Two bankrollers make their escape after a botched job, but one of them may be far more than what he seems.

A bartender educates a patron on why he should never, ever tell a woman to “just smile.”

A woman awakens to find life strangely normal after murdering her husband, but normal is a world of constant dread, and the voice in her head is worse than the corpse in her bed.

you know what it means
but you mustn’t look back