Short stories published in Needle

Listing 2 stories.

A man returns to New Hampshire after years of hiding from his past to handle his dead father's affairs. When he encounters an old friend-turned-enemy and a local girl goes missing, the past he tried to run away from comes to light in a heart-racing turn of events.

After a young girl dies trying to escape from her kidnapper, the witnesses who saw the girl in a Waffle House minutes before her death reckon with their inaction.