“Pretty Little Boxes” — Resurrection House’s Anthology XIII (March 2015)
My story “Pretty Little Boxes” was published in the Resurrection House anthology XIII in March 2015.
First Lines: Boxes surround us. Every night Barry builds more walls, fastens more lids. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I slip down the hall to his workroom and watch. His eyes remain focused on the contents of his bench: the wood, the pulped flowers and all those dying insects—the grasshoppers, the damsel flies, the hissing cockroaches—that will eventually make up the lining of each petal-and-limb box.
Editor: Mark Teppo
Cover Design: Jennifer Tough
Jacket Description: The thirteenth Tarot card is Death, and he is … Read more