The Surveillance of Us
Elena found herself running along the waterfront at 2 AM, her breath pluming in the October chill, the rhythmic thud of her sneakers against the pavement the only honest thing in h...
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Elena found herself running along the waterfront at 2 AM, her breath pluming in the October chill, the rhythmic thud of her sneakers against the pavement the only honest thing in h...
Marcus felt like a zombie by 3 PM every day—that particular corporate variety of undead where you're technically alive but something essential has hollowed you out. He sat in his c...
The hospital corridors hummed with that particular **zombie** fluorescence—that overhead lighting that makes everyone look half-dead by 3 AM. Elena sat beside Marcus's bed, watchin...
The cat watched me from the bookshelf, yellow eyes unblinking, as I scrolled through the photos on his iphone. Julia at a restaurant I didn't recognize. Julia laughing with someone...
The amber bottle sat on Elena's desk like a small tombstone. Inside were three hundred capsules of what her company's marketing department had dubbed 'Vitamin X'—a compound she now...
Mara found the gray hair while the cable guy was still drilling into the wall. She was forty-three, but somehow this single strand at her temple felt like a betrayal. Behind her, J...
The padel court echoed with the sharp crack of racquet against ball, but Marcus wasn't really playing anymore. He was going through motions while Elena watched from her lounge chai...
The fox appeared at 3 AM, padding through Sarah's garden as if she'd been expected. Sarah stood on her balcony, clutching her iPhone like a lifeline, the screen illuminating the fi...
Elena first noticed her in the company cafeteria—the woman with the immaculate silver hair, always pulled back severely, always topped with that same charcoal felt hat. Lunch after...
Elena had become something she never wanted to be: a spy in her own marriage. It started with a glance at Marco's iPhone when he'd left it unlocked on the kitchen counter—just a r...
The pool at the Holiday Inn Express was exactly what you'd expect: chlorinated and lukewarm, smelling faintly of other people's sunscreen and stale mistakes. Elena sat on the edge,...
She was running late, again. The spinach salad wilted on the table, its greens darkening in the candlelight like bruised thoughts. Julian watched the restaurant entrance, his finge...