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Elena was running on fumes, three hours of sleep and a double espresso her only fuel. She adjusted her grandfather's fedora, the brim pulled low against the harsh fluorescent light...
The pool at the Hacienda Resort was that impossible blue that doesn't exist in nature. Elena swam laps while Julian flirted with the padel instructor near court three. She'd suspec...
The Zombie in the Mirror Marcus had become a zombie somewhere between his third divorce and the collapse of the mortgage-backed securities market. Not the walking dead kind—worse....
Elena sat at the corner table of O'Malley's, nursing her third scotch, watching the rain streak the window like tears she refused to cry. At forty-two, she'd finally quit—just walk...
Marcus stood on his balcony peeling an orange, the citrus scent cutting through the stale air of his apartment. At forty-two, he'd finally started taking vitamin D supplements—his ...
Elena worked the graveyard shift at the cable company, a zombie in all but name. Her skin had that same grayish pallor, her eyes the same vacant stare. The fluorescent lights humme...
The papaya sat on the counter, its skin mottled with yellow and green, a tropical monument to the summer we almost had. Mark had bought it two days before his diagnosis—before the ...
Elena watched from the balcony as Marcus played padel with the resort's tennis instructor. The way he moved—light on his feet, laughter tumbling out of him—belonged to a version of...
Marcus sat in Section 204, Row J, Seat 12—exactly where his father used to sit. The baseball diamond below gleamed under floodlights, players tiny as ants from this height. He'd co...
The vitamin D supplement sat on her tongue, chalky and demanding, as Elena watched the corporate pyramid outside her thirty-fifth floor window catch the last orange light of Octobe...
The palm reader had told Sarah she'd leave by autumn. I'd laughed, bought her cotton candy, kissed the salt off her lips. Three weeks later, she was gone. Now I sat behind home pl...
The goldfish circled its bowl with the bored precision of something that had seen too much. Three years of dinner parties, arguments, the muted thump of music from the bedroom whil...