The Last Summer of Trying
Margot stood on the balcony of the timeshare she'd bought with money she didn't have, watching the sun dip behind the ocean. The palm fronds cast shadows across her face like crack...
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Margot stood on the balcony of the timeshare she'd bought with money she didn't have, watching the sun dip behind the ocean. The palm fronds cast shadows across her face like crack...
The cat—Morris, because she'd insisted on the name eight years ago when they were still making each other mixed CDs and believing in forevers—curled at the foot of their bed, purri...
The padel court at the resort was glass-walled and unforgiving, reflecting everything back at us — my exhausted posture, Elena's fierce determination, the twelve years of marriage ...
Elena sat on the bench at the padel club, watching Richard's back as he served. His shirt was damp, tracing the spine she'd traced a thousand times. But her eyes kept returning to ...
The stadium lights hummed above them, a manufactured twilight in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon. Sarah's palm pressed against the back of his hand, a ghost of familiarity that m...
Elena stood at the edge of the pond, watching the orange flash of the goldfish break the surface—transient mouths gasping for something they'd already forgotten they needed. Her mo...
Elena stood by the water cooler in the breakroom, staring at the way the bubbles rose and burst—tiny, meaningless deaths in a plastic sea. She'd been at Preston & Bryce for seven y...
Elena stood before the bathroom mirror at 2 AM, pulling strands of gray hair from her temples. Each pluck was a small rebellion against time, against the corporate pyramid she'd sp...
I hadn't slept properly in three weeks. The cat — Merlin, a judgmental Siamese I'd inherited from my mother — stared at me from his perch atop the refrigerator as I swallowed my mo...
The papaya sat on the white ceramic plate, its orange flesh glistening like something torn open. Elena had ordered it because it was David's favorite—when they were still speaking ...
The breakup had left her moving through days like a zombie—automatic, hollowed out, performing the motions of living without anyone home behind the eyes. Three months in, Elena sti...
Elena found the hat first—crushed among the pine needles, its brim still bearing the ghost of Sarah's forehead shape. Three months after the funeral, and she'd come back to the cab...