What We Carry
The spinach had been stuck between Marcus's front teeth for forty-five minutes. Elena watched it as he described his promotion—something about scalability and synergies—while she c...
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The spinach had been stuck between Marcus's front teeth for forty-five minutes. Elena watched it as he described his promotion—something about scalability and synergies—while she c...
Claire smoothed her platinum hair, the too-blonde strands catching the harsh fluorescent light of the hotel corridor. She'd been growing it out for six months, ever since Marcus le...
Eliza counted them out every morning: the D3 for the bones that already ached at thirty-seven, the B-complex for energy she no longer felt, the Omega-3 for a heart that had been th...
The bear had been following her for three days. Not a real bear—Marcus's bear, that ridiculous taxidermy monstrosity he'd dragged home from some estate sale, its glass eyes somehow...
The pool at the Santorini resort was exactly as the brochure had promised: an infinity edge disappearing into the Aegean, water the color of dissolved diamonds. What the brochure h...
The air conditioning had been dead for three days when Elena showed Marcus the lines on his palm. Her apartment felt like a greenhouse, the humidity pressing against the windows li...
The dog was the first thing I noticed when I walked into Marcus's office—that ridiculous golden retriever his wife insisted he bring to work, claiming it improved office morale. Th...
The wellness brochure had promised transformation. Instead, Elena found herself at forty-two, sitting alone at the retreat's buffet, pushing a pile of wilting spinach around her pl...
I never intended to become a corporate spy. It started with reading emails on the sly, then escalated to photographing documents on my phone. Now I sit in rented cars outside compe...
Maya had become something of a spy in her own marriage. Not the glamorous kind—no martini-soaked evenings or stolen documents—but the domestic variety: watching from doorways, trac...
The pool hadn't been cleaned in weeks. A thick layer of algae slicked across the surface like an unspoken apology, the water murky and still. Elena sat on the edge, her legs dangli...
The rooftop pool shimmered like liquid mercury, Manhattan's skyline reflected in its unmoving surface. Elena hadn't seen Marcus in three years—not since the night she'd told him sh...