Pyramid of the Living Dead
The organizational chart hung on Marcus's cubicle wall like a guillotine blade—a pyramid in corporate beige, his name near the bottom where the oxygen ran thin. At 42, with his hai...
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The organizational chart hung on Marcus's cubicle wall like a guillotine blade—a pyramid in corporate beige, his name near the bottom where the oxygen ran thin. At 42, with his hai...
The restaurant was nearly empty, just the hum of refrigerators and the distant crash of waves. Elena sat across from Marcus, watching him cut into his papaya with surgical precisio...
Margot placed the orange gelatinous oval on her tongue — vitamin D, the doctor called it, though she knew it was really Vitamin Hope. Something to swallow when the winter stretched...
Mara stood in her kitchen at 2 AM, aggressively chopping spinach. The green leaves scattered like fallen thoughts across the cutting board. She'd found the recipe tucked inside Eli...
Elena sat at her desk, feeling like a zombie in the fluorescent hum of the forty-third floor. The corporate pyramid rose above her—executives at the apex, managers like herself in ...
The papaya sat on the counter for three days before Eva finally cut into it. Jorge had brought it home Friday evening, that tentative peace offering after their third fight of the ...
The pool water shimmered like liquid obsidian under the floodlights, and Rebecca sat on the edge with her legs submerged, watching the ripples distort her reflection. She was thirt...
The papaya sat on the counter like a guilty secret, its mottled skin half-green, half-orange, somewhere between hope and decay. Elena had bought it on impulse yesterday, during tha...
The goldfish had been floating sideways for three days before Marcus finally noticed. "It's dying," he said, peering into the bowl while knotting his tie, his reflection distorti...
The goldfish hovered in its bowl, orange scales catching the afternoon light, oblivious to the fact that Arthur had been dead for three weeks. Elena watched it circle—once, twice—a...
The baseball game flickered silently on the TV above the bar—bottom of the ninth, two outs, full count. Elena watched it instead of watching him. "You going to say anything?" Mar...
The papaya sat untouched on the breakfast terrace, its orange flesh glistening like a wound Elena couldn't bring herself to heal. Forty-two years old and she still didn't know how ...