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Mara stood on the balcony of her twenty-third floor apartment, nursing a glass of warm chardonnay. The sun was setting behind the city skyline, painting the smog-choked sky in bril...
Mark watched the water bead on the outside of his glass, counting each droplet's lazy descent. Six months after his father's death, he moved through life like a zombie—present in b...
The fluorescent lights hummed their Monday morning dirge as Marcus dragged himself to the breakroom, another corporate zombie shuffling toward sustenance. Forty-two years old and h...
Milo sat on the kitchen counter, tail twitching with that particular judgment only cats possess. He watched me chop spinach, the green leaves bleeding onto the cutting board like m...
Marcus had become a zombie somewhere between the merger announcement and his third divorce decree. Not the flesh-eating kind—the corporate variety, shuffling between quarterly revi...
The reception was in full swing when Elena found herself standing at the edge of the infinity pool, clutching her iphone like a lifeline. Her screen lit up every thirty seconds—wor...
The coaxial cable hung from the bedroom wall like a dead snake, its end frayed where Elena had pulled it from the socket during their third fight that week. Marcus stared at it, th...
The pool closed at ten, but Elena stayed until the lifeguard clicked off the floodlights, swimming laps until her muscles burned and the water went still. This was her sanctuary—th...
Elena had been the company's designated spy for three years, planted in a rival firm's R&D department to feed intellectual property back to her actual employers. She was good at it...
The hat sat on Marcus's desk like a judgment — a fedora, ridiculous and anachronistic, exactly the kind of thing he'd wear to appear more interesting than he actually was. Elena ha...
Elena had been a spy in her own marriage for three weeks when she started feeling like a zombie—hollowed out by the weight of what she might find. Each morning she woke beside Davi...
The community pool at dusk had that peculiar blue glow — the color of nostalgia, of things seen through water and time. Maya floated on her back, listening to the distant crack of ...