Laps of Memory
Mia stood at the edge of the pool at 5 AM, the only time the gym wasn't crawling with the walking dead—corporate zombies shuffling through their hollow morning routines, eyes glaze...
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Mia stood at the edge of the pool at 5 AM, the only time the gym wasn't crawling with the walking dead—corporate zombies shuffling through their hollow morning routines, eyes glaze...
Mia sat in the metal bleachers, the cold seeping through her coat as she watched Lucas stand in the outfield, his baseball glove too large on his hand. He hadn't moved in three inn...
The cancer had taken most of it by then—her hair, I mean. Mom sat in her hospital bed, running fingers over the sparse white strands that remained like winter grass after a hard fr...
Martin hadn't been to a baseball game since college, but here he sat, third row behind home plate, watching some minor league pitcher throw heat that nobody could hit. Beside him, ...
Marcus found his friend Rafael sitting on a crate behind the gym's vitamin aisle, staring at a bottle of pills with the intensity of someone reading a last will and testament. "Yo...
The fox appeared at dusk every evening, a copper shadow threading through the tall grass behind our rental cabin. Tomas watched it through the kitchen window while he chopped veget...
The notification on Maggie's iphone illuminated the dark bedroom at 3:14 AM—another heart emoji from him, meaningless now, crumbs of digital affection she couldn't bring herself to...
The pet store aquarium hummed with fluorescent indifference. Twelve years of marriage dissolved into a cardboard box containing his toothbrush and a singular orange goldfish—that w...
Elena adjusted her security guard hat, the stiff brim catching the fluorescent glare of the hotel lobby. 3:47 AM. The optimal time for feeling like a zombie. Four years of night s...
Maya smoothed her flyaway **hair** for the third time, catching her reflection in the funeral home's glass doors. At forty-two, she hadn't expected to be **running** away from her ...
Marcus found himself running down Mission Street at 2 AM, his orange beanie pulled low against the fog. The absurdity of it hit him—thirty-four years old, sprinting through San Fra...
The baseball stadium hummed with that particular electricity of late September—playoff weather, the air crisp enough to see your breath, the crowd a living organism holding its col...