For quite a few years, I have read and enjoyed Jeffrey Deaver's novels, mostly dealing with crime, detectives, and mystery.
So, when I stumbled across two Deaver short stories, I thought it would be fun to use them for our reader's chat.
Don't worry, they are short, one is about 5 pages, and the other only 3
http://www.jefferydeaver.com/Short_Stories_/FirstDayOfSchool/firstdayofschool.ht ml
and
http://www.parade.com/news/2008/10/halloween-short-story.html