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The papaya sat on the white ceramic plate, its flesh already oxidizing to a muddy gray where Elena had dragged her spoon through it. Three bites. That's all she'd taken before chec...
Elena watched the gray strands multiply through her salon mirror, each one a tiny flag of surrender. She'd booked the emergency appointment—the cable guy was coming between four an...
Elena adjusted the brim of her hat, shielding her eyes from the fluorescent glare of the pharmaceutical conference center. Three years ago, this venue had been where she and Marcus...
The papaya sat on the counter between us, oxidizing at the edges where Maya had cut it open three hours ago. Neither of us had touched it. In the silence of our Brooklyn apartment,...
The goldfish didn't judge. That's what Tom liked about Leonard—the orange fantail his wife had bought three months before she died, as if a ten-cent pet could fill the child-shaped...
The goldfish had survived longer than their marriage. Mara stood in the center of what used to be their dining room, watching the orange fish dart through cloudy green **water**. ...
Elena stood at the baseline of Court 3, her **hat** pulled low against the harsh afternoon sun. The brim shadowed eyes that had seen too many disappointments in the last six months...
Elena stood at the edge of the hotel pool, nursing her third gin and tonic. The water's surface rippled with artificial blue, oblivious to the corporate massacre scheduled for Mond...
Maya stared at the coaxial cable dangling from her wall like a dead snake, its frayed end testament to three hours of technical support hell. The zombie-like customer service rep h...
Maya sank into the hotel pool at 2 AM, the water swallowing her like a second skin. The chlorine stung her eyes—appropriate, since she'd been crying since Richard's keynote speech ...
Maya sat in cubicle 4B, the corporate sphinx of the twentieth floor, her riddles taking the form of impossible deadlines and passive-aggressive emails. At 47, after two divorces an...
The papaya sat on the white china plate, glistening with lime juice. Elena watched Julian cut into it, the way his wrist turned, the familiarity of his morning ritual. They'd been ...