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The pool was empty at 6 PM, exactly how Mara liked it. She'd been coming here since Thomas left, since the apartment became too quiet with just the orange tomcat glowering from his...
Maya checked her iPhone for the third time in as many minutes. 11:47 PM. The blue light cast her face in ghostly pallor as the R train rattled beneath her. She felt like a zombie—a...
The padel court smelled of rubber and desperation. Elena's backhand came harder than usual, each strike against the glass wall sounding like a door being slammed shut for good. She...
Marcus sat on the edge of the hotel pool at 3 AM, his feet dangling in the chemically bright water. Forty-two years old and sleeping on a colleague's air mattress because he couldn...
The cat appeared on what would have been our tenth anniversary, a scrawny orange thing with one ear that refused to stand up. I'd been drinking lukewarm coffee on the balcony of th...
The desert heat still radiated from the pavement as Maya stepped barefoot into the pool. The water closed around her ankles, cool and forgiving, washing away the grit of another fo...
Maya stood on the balcony of the Thompson estate, her wine glass sweating against her palm in the humid Ohio night. Behind her, through the floor-to-ceiling glass doors, David sat ...
The email came through at 2 AM on a Tuesday, glowing against my retina as I stared at my iphone in the darkness of a bedroom that no longer felt like mine. Sarah's side of the bed ...
Marcus hadn't been a proper spy in seven years, not since Prague went sideways and left him with a limp that flared up when it rained. Now he installed cable for suburbanites who t...
Elena had been a corporate spy for seven years, long enough to know that the pool at the Azure Hotel was where deals—both professional and intimate—went to die. The water shimmered...
Elena placed her father's fedora on the desk—a battered **hat** that still smelled of pipe tobacco and Sunday morning walks. The box with her belongings was already packed: a frame...
Maya stared at the papaya on her desk, its sunset-orange flesh mocking the fluorescent-gray of her office on the forty-second floor. Outside, lightning fractured the Seattle sky, i...