Author
Seth DeHaan
Seth DeHaan lives to read and write, and experiences a kind of gnawing guilt when he neglects either responsibility. A recent college graduate, he walks the streets of Grand Rapids, Michigan, dazed and in search of suitable work. You can follow his ongoing development at thudd.wordpress.com or @sethdehaan.
Too Careful
Tom wakes in a rush of fear--as every morning--and motion triggers react to the flicker of his eyelids, flooding his small room with light. He takes immediate inventory of the space: The door, closed; the tripwire, undisturbed. He lifts himself from the bed in one smooth, silent…
The Butcher's First
Our home always smelled like blood. My father spent his days among meat and his nights ensconced in the aromatic mist of it. We lived above the shop--he and me, Mother and my sister Fennel--in three small rooms built of knotted pine, boards stained in the colors of our…