Swimming Up the Pyramid
Marcus felt like a zombie as he walked through the glass doors of Meridian Tech, his startup's corporate office. The pyramid scheme masquerading as a multilevel marketing organizat...
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Marcus felt like a zombie as he walked through the glass doors of Meridian Tech, his startup's corporate office. The pyramid scheme masquerading as a multilevel marketing organizat...
The batter swings. Misses. Michael checks his iPhone again. Nothing. The stadium lights flicker as the storm rolls in. He shouldn't have come. Shouldn't be sitting here watching b...
The lightning cracked across the skyline as Elena stood on the padel court, rain mixing with her sweat. The corporate retreat in Mexico had been Markus's ideaโjust like everything ...
The coaxial cable lay coiled like a dead snake on the floor of apartment 4B, its copper guts exposed where something had chewed through the insulation. Marcus stared at it, wonderi...
She hated padel. That's what she was thinking when her backhand sailed into the net, again. The ball skittered across the blue court like a trapped thing. Across from her, Marcus w...
Martin stood at the window of his corner office, thirty-third floor, watching the pyramid of corporate headquarters gleam against the smog-choked sunset. At fifty-two, he'd finally...
The papaya sat untouched on the edge of the cabana, its vibrant orange flesh already beginning to oxidize in the humid air. Elena hadn't taken a bite. She hadn't moved much at all ...
Maya stood on her hotel balcony in Giza, nursing a gin and tonic that had gone warm in the desert heat. Below, the pool glittered like an exposed nerveโguests floating in its turqu...
The morning after Mara left, I started running. Not away from anything specificโshe'd taken everything she wantedโbut toward an exhaustion that might silence the questions circling...
Elena adjusted her fascinator hat, the black feathers trembling like nervous wings. She'd spent three hours perfecting her appearance for the company gala, but nothing could disgui...
The dead don't always stay buried. Sometimes they show up at corporate meetings, wearing grey suits and discussing quarterly projections. Elena sat at the conference table, feeling...
The bullpen phone didn't ring. Not that Marcus expected it to. Thirty years of throwing heat, his shoulder now aching with every pitch, and here he sat โ watching zombies shuffle ...