A 7-year-old Charles Splints is a private investigator at Brooksend Elementary. In this story he’s tasked with finding a student who went missing during a game of Hide-and-Seek. Find the story here

By Dan Leicht There are spiders everywhere In my lungs spinning webs casting away each breath I can no longer breathe There is a man talking on his phone below my balcony telling his daughter it will be all right…

OLD HANK Every December he’d visit the bus stop in the morning and stay there until eight at night. Over the years he made friends with the regulars. Most of them referred to him as Old Hank and would bring…