From the east side of Detroit, this is Corner to Corner. I'm Julian Ames. I say it out loud to my windshield at a quarter to four on a Saturday, sitting in my car in front of…

By the time the mare would let anybody near her, Ezra Cline's barn was a black frame against the ridge, and the chief had quit coughing long enough to cuss me. "You're going to…

"You're three hours late and you've parked on my crush pad, Agius. Shift it before I put it through the destemmer." Graham Kessner is standing in the winery shed doorway with the…

Rohan Rohan Barrett stood in his mother's kitchen in Vineyard Town with a bin bag in each hand and twenty-six years of Birmingham still in his vowels. The zinc roof banged in the…

From the east side of Detroit, this is Corner to Corner. I'm Julian Ames. I say it out loud to my windshield at a quarter to four on a Saturday, sitting in my car in front of…

By the time the mare would let anybody near her, Ezra Cline's barn was a black frame against the ridge, and the chief had quit coughing long enough to cuss me. "You're going to…

"You're three hours late and you've parked on my crush pad, Agius. Shift it before I put it through the destemmer." Graham Kessner is standing in the winery shed doorway with the…

Rohan Rohan Barrett stood in his mother's kitchen in Vineyard Town with a bin bag in each hand and twenty-six years of Birmingham still in his vowels. The zinc roof banged in the…

The crew van smells of floor polish and somebody's biltong, and Thandi is asleep against the window with her cap in her lap by the time we hit the N2. I let her sleep. She flew the…

Gideon Strand is trying to hang his funeral jacket in a hotel closet built for a much smaller man when he hears Ellis Reeve say his name from the bedroom doorway of the suite…

The board in the ferry terminal flipped the six-forty to CANCELLED while I was still reading it, and a man two seats down from me said, "Well, that's a shame," in the voice of…

The storm that was supposed to blow past by noon parked itself over the channel instead and wouldn't leave. By four the outer wharf was a gray smear of wet rope and cold iron, and…