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The fiber optic cable lay tangled across Elena's desk like a dead snake, its illuminated port blinking in rhythmic indifference. She'd been staring at it for twenty minutes, avoidi...
Maya found the Ethernet cable still wrapped around his leg, a black serpent coiled possessively even in death. The paramedics had already taken Daniel's body, but the cable remaine...
Mara stood at the edge of the resort pool, nursing her third gin and tonic. The company retreat had been three days of forced camaraderie and strategic networking, and she was exha...
The recession had turned everyone into a zombie of some sort—Marcus just happened to be one of the literal variety, although in his defense, the funeral home industry had been surp...
The orange cat appeared at exactly 4 AM, sitting on the fire escape like it owned the half-light before dawn. Maya hadn't slept since the funeral—since her friend's text message st...
The vitamin bottle rattled in her hand — the sound of her morning ritual, the sound of trying to hold it together at forty-five. Elena swallowed the capsules dry, standing on the b...
Marissa stood on her balcony in Miami, the neon **orange** glow of the hotel sign bleeding into the humid night. Her palm pressed against the railing, leaving a sweat-print that wo...
Elena stood by the hotel pool in Miami, the water reflecting a bruise-purple sunset. Fifty-two years old, and she was still attending these corporate retreats, still pretending tha...
The spinach lay wilting in the refrigerator crisper drawer, a metaphor Emily couldn't escape. Three weeks ago, it had been crisp and full of promise, fresh from the farmers' market...
The HDMI cable lay coiled on the nightstand like a black snake, its head buried in the hotel room television. Elena had brought it from home—another piece of her carefully construc...
Rain slicked the streets of downtown as I ran past the corporate tower, my breath forming white clouds in the cold November air. Running had become my escape—four years since the d...
Forty-two, and Elena found herself pulling gray hairs from her temples each morning, watching them collect in the waste bin like fallen wires. Marcus had stopped noticing her years...