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Elena felt like a zombie by 3 PM every weekday. The fluorescent lights of her open-plan office drained something essential from her—some spark she couldn't name but desperately mis...
The pyramid-shaped glass tower rose above Cairo like a middle finger to the ancient stones across the river. Elena swam laps in the infinity pool on the forty-second floor, countin...
The goldfish lived in Elena's bottom desk drawer, swimming nervous circles in a mason jar. She'd rescued it from the corporate lobby fountain during a late-night bout of existentia...
The coaxial cable lay coiled on the driveway like a dead snake. Elena wiped sweat from her forehead and checked her work order again. Suite 4002, Ms. V. The woman on the phone had ...
Three AM again. Elena lay awake, **running** through every mistake of the last year like a prayer she couldn't stop reciting. The divorce papers had arrived yesterday, finalized, s...
The goldfish bowl sat on Margaret's windowsill for forty-two years, through three marriages and the gradual dimming of her eyesight. She'd won it at a carnival in 1978, some summer...
The pool was nearly empty at 7 AM, just the way Mara liked it. She pulled herself from the water, chlorine clinging to her skin like second breath, and grabbed her towel. Swimming ...
The goldfish circled its bowl endlessly, orange scales flashing in the fluorescent office light. Sarah watched it while pretending to check her iphone, her thumb hovering over the ...
The farmers market was already sweating under the July sun when Elena's phone buzzed in her pocket. She ignored it, reaching instead for a bag of spinach, still damp with morning d...
Elena pressed her palm against the cold glass of her office window, thirty-seven floors above the city. Below, the world continued without her—cars like glowing ants, people with r...
Mara sat on the dock, legs dangling in the lake, watching the orange sunset bleed across the water. Her iPhone buzzed against the wooden planks—David again. Forty-seven messages si...
Marcus sat on the outbound train, his father's fedora pulled low. The suitcase at his feet contained the grizzly: a seven-year-old male from the Yukon, requested by a grieving wido...