TOUGH

W e were on the patio by the pool, under a blazing hot sun. Marie sipped a melon daiquiri from a sweating glass, taking a break from recit...

T here was almost eleven-thousand dollars on the low-slung table in front of me. The neatly-banded blocks were all relatively small bills, n...

The sky roiled. Heavy, low-hanging clouds hid the setting sun so completely it might as well have been night already. Morgan downshifted, th...