The Odds Are Against It — Janice Daugharty

First published in Ontario Review; edited by Joyce Carol Oates

During a rare spring snowstorm in South Georgia, a rural mail carrier by the name of Tammy bumps heads with her nightmares when she gives a ride to a stranger cabin-bound by the snow. And then the memories of another stranger, who kidnapped and shot Tammy, twenty years before, come pouring in. Could the same thing be about to happen? No, she reasons, the odds are against it...