The Hands of Stony

"I told Stony I would split the responsibility for Misty's vanishing three ways. One third to the heartlessness of my mother and father, one third to me," he writes. "When she disappeared, he could think only of himself and save in his own miserable, dope dealing skin" The next night at 2:30 a.m., there was a rapping on the front door upstairs. It was not the police or any rational adult because of its petty urgency. Still, though, it stopped right away. A woman dressed in a long dress moved toward the far end of the street. She stopped and turned back toward the house. Her face was an undefined blot; someone was