L.V. Gaudet

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...

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...

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...

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...

A police officer knocked on the old lady’s door.  He waited, knocked again, waited.  Constable Timothy Berkham is a young man and new on...

A police officer knocked on the old lady’s door.  He waited, knocked again, waited.  Constable Timothy Berkham is a young man and new on...

At the hospital, men groaned in pain and thrashed on gurneys, rolling feebly to vomit furiously into too small jellybean shaped hospital...

At the hospital, men groaned in pain and thrashed on gurneys, rolling feebly to vomit furiously into too small jellybean shaped hospital...

Stanley Rutthers stood in his boss’s office nervously gripping his hard hat in his hands. His boss, Bruce Copeland, sat at his desk...

Stanley Rutthers stood in his boss’s office nervously gripping his hard hat in his hands. His boss, Bruce Copeland, sat at his desk...

The construction site was abuzz with activity.  Already behind schedule due to a calamity of errors, and then from the site being shut...

The construction site was abuzz with activity.  Already behind schedule due to a calamity of errors, and then from the site being shut...

I can see the tractors, the workers, and the great swaths of black ruined earth marring the weed infested tan stubble of the once...

I can see the tractors, the workers, and the great swaths of black ruined earth marring the weed infested tan stubble of the once...

He looks around. The house has a forlorn feel to it. A family home abandoned by its family, waiting, every book, every knickknack, every...

He looks around. The house has a forlorn feel to it. A family home abandoned by its family, waiting, every book, every knickknack, every...

On the edge of the last small untouched part of the woods a lone figure stands silently, hunched against the cold in a thin worn jacket,...

On the edge of the last small untouched part of the woods a lone figure stands silently, hunched against the cold in a thin worn jacket,...

She stands in the open doorway looking out at the backyard. “Now where did those boys get to?” She calls again, her voice lilting up in...