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Emma found herself running before dawn, the rhythm of her sneakers on pavement matching the thrum of panic that had lived in her chest for three weeks. Since Marcus left. Since the...
The pool was drained when Rachel arrived at the Airbnb—a gaping blue mouth full of dead leaves and rusted skimmers. It was perfect, really. She'd spent her entire adult life fillin...
The fluorescent lights of the forty-second floor hummed with the sound of wasted potential. Elena swallowed another B-complex vitamin, the chalky pill catching in her throat as she...
The fedora hat sat on Marcus's desk like a relic from a noir film, an affectation that annoyed Elena to no end. In the fluorescent sterility of their trading floor, it seemed ridic...
The apartment smelled of dust and old paper — the particular scent of a life being packed into boxes. Elias stood in his mother's kitchen, holding a frozen bag of spinach with an e...
The orange lay on the white tablecloth like a small, stubborn sun. Susan had peeled it halfway, the rind curling around her fingers, but she'd stopped. Just stopped mid-motion, lik...
The goldfish bowl sat between us like a contested border, the orange fish swimming in oblivious circles while we divided seven years of accumulated life. Sarah wanted the Vitamix. ...
The fox-red hair should have been my first warning. Elena's tumbled curls caught the tropical sunrise as she leaned against the palm tree outside our office building, smoking with ...
Elena stood on the balcony of the Tokyo hotel room, watching lightning split the sky into fractured white veins. The storm matched what was brewing inside her chest. Three years as...
Maya watched the **lightning** split the sky outside her thirty-fifth floor office, each flash illuminating the corporate **bull** statue on the plaza below—the company's mascot, c...
The ball hit the padel racket with a satisfying thwack, a sound Marcus had grown to hate. Wednesday evenings at the club were supposed to be networking, but really they were just b...
The prescription bottle sat on the nightstand, a white plastic cylinder filled with pale yellow oval pills. Vitamin D, the doctor had said, as if that could compensate for what the...