Tethered
Martha knelt beside the television, her knees cracking like dry twigs. Behind the entertainment center, a rat's nest of cables—coaxial, HDMI, power—waited like black snakes. The Co...
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Martha knelt beside the television, her knees cracking like dry twigs. Behind the entertainment center, a rat's nest of cables—coaxial, HDMI, power—waited like black snakes. The Co...
The storm broke at 2 AM, lightning fracturing the sky like something trying to escape. Elena sat on her fire escape, rain soaking through her silk robe, nursing a glass of whiskey ...
The Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian wing was empty at closing time, exactly how Elena preferred it. She adjusted her glasses—camera-equipped, transmitting to handlers she'd never me...
The coaxial cable behind Elena's television had been fraying for months, a detail she noticed every time she adjusted the screen to avoid the ghost of static that flickered across ...
Elena sat on the ledge of the 40th floor, her legs dangling over the city lights below. The coaxial cable she'd sliced through dangled limp beside her, still sparking with the resi...
The pool at the Tropicana was empty except for Marco and a floating cocktail umbrella drifting toward the drain like a tiny abandoned ship. He'd come here after leaving Sarah—after...
Maya had become something of a zombie in the three years since Thomas died. She went to work, answered emails, attended meetings, came home, fed the cats, slept. The routine was a ...
Maya stood before the bathroom mirror at 6:47 AM, pulling a gray hair from her temple with deliberate fingers. At forty-two, she'd stopped counting. The tube of vitamin D supplemen...
The lightning struck just as Marcus dropped the box. A cardboard avalanche of books sprawled across the hardwood floor — Camus, Didion, a collection of Egyptian mythology he'd boug...
Elena adjusted her wig in the restroom mirror, running her fingers through the auburn strands. The hair felt wrong against her scalp—too synthetic, too perfect—but that was the pri...
Marcus stood in the driveway, the old farmhouse silhouetted against an approaching storm. His iPhone buzzed again—Elena, for the fifth time today. He didn't answer. "Bullshit," he...
Marcus had been a cable technician for seventeen years, and in that time he'd learned that every connection tells a story. The young couple whose internet went down every Friday ni...