Danielle Snyder's summer job as a babysitter takes a tragic turn when Humphrey, the five-year-old boy she's watching, runs in front of oncoming traffic to chase down his football.

Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof.

Seventeen-year-old Icie's parents have given her $10,000 in cash, a map of a top-secret bunker, and instructions to get there by any means necessary.

Here are thirteen tales of death, murder, and revenge from the fertile and febrile imagination of master storyteller David Lubar

Freesia

Death has her in his clutches. She doesn

Justin was just having fun, but when his dad walked in on him with a girl in a very compromising position, Justin's summer took a quick turn for the worse.

Delaney

The impossible was just the beginning.

A shadowy figure. An intense roar. The sensation of falling