L.V. Gaudet

When Stanley returned to Garden Grove he went directly to the trailer office.  Pinching the padlock loop just above the block shaped lock...

Kevin and Jesse run, pushing the bike through the snow, counting to five together and skidding to a stop just before the invisible...

Kevin and Jesse run, pushing the bike through the snow, counting to five together and skidding to a stop just before the invisible...

At the hospital, Dave McCormack and a few of the other poisoned workers are being discharged.  Being the slow process that it is, the...

At the hospital, Dave McCormack and a few of the other poisoned workers are being discharged.  Being the slow process that it is, the...

June wakes up feeling foggy and sore.  She blinks the fuzziness from her eyes and rolls over, looking miserably at the open bedroom...

June wakes up feeling foggy and sore.  She blinks the fuzziness from her eyes and rolls over, looking miserably at the open bedroom...

As dawn broke over the horizon, adding an orange glow to the darkness, trucks and cars started lining up along the still unpaved road...

As dawn broke over the horizon, adding an orange glow to the darkness, trucks and cars started lining up along the still unpaved road...

Cody blinks his eyes open.  They feel grainy, gummed up.  His mouth feels pasty and he imagines how bad his breath must smell.  His...

Cody blinks his eyes open.  They feel grainy, gummed up.  His mouth feels pasty and he imagines how bad his breath must smell.  His...

A figure prowled in the darkness by the entrance of the roughed in road leading into the Garden Grove jobsite, the shape revealed in the...

A figure prowled in the darkness by the entrance of the roughed in road leading into the Garden Grove jobsite, the shape revealed in the...

The boys are rummaging around the house for stuff to throw.  Kevin finds his baseball and bat, setting them by the back door. “You going...

The boys are rummaging around the house for stuff to throw.  Kevin finds his baseball and bat, setting them by the back door. “You going...

Another round of coffee was poured in the little kitchen for the four women of the coffee clutch. “I just can’t take it anymore,” Libby...

Another round of coffee was poured in the little kitchen for the four women of the coffee clutch. “I just can’t take it anymore,” Libby...

June looks out the window to the backyard.  The snow is tramped down, ugly and mangled, from the many pairs of boots that have walked all...

June looks out the window to the backyard.  The snow is tramped down, ugly and mangled, from the many pairs of boots that have walked all...

I can see you out there, with your chainsaws ripping into the gnarled bark of the old oak trees, tearing their wooden flesh apart until...