From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2015. One warm early summer evening I heard a huge racket outside in the driveway. From a second story deck I looked down and ...

Deserts are among the most extreme and hostile environments on Earth, with extreme temperatures, minimal rainfall, and sometimes severe flash floods when it does rain. These are hostile environments ...

As genre expert S.T. Joshi notes in his introduction to this welcome collection of a dozen stories by Hichens (1864–1950), this British author “remains one of the best-kept secrets in imaginative ...