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Marlena ate lunch alone on the terrace, papaya juice staining her lips like a secret she couldn't swallow. Below, the city sprawled like a wounded animal, all glass and greed. She ...
Margaret stood at the kitchen sink, scrubbing a coffee mug that had sat unwashed for three days. Through the window, she watched him in the backyard—her brother, Daniel, tossing a ...
Elena sat on the balcony of the hotel room they'd booked together, then canceled together, then rebooked alone. The papaya she'd cut for breakfast sat uneaten on the wicker table, ...
The alarm clock blared at 6:30 AM, and Marcus dragged himself out of bed like a zombie from a cheap horror film. Forty-two years old, and he'd become exactly what he'd sworn he wou...
Mara found the cat on her fire escape three weeks after David's funeral, a mangy tabby with one ear that refused to stand at attention. She named him Baseball, because life had bec...
Elena adjusted the brim of her father's fedora, the felt still carrying the faint scent of his pomade and cigarettes. Three years after the funeral, and this was the first time she...
Elena watched him eat the papaya, the juice staining his chin like something wicked. Marcus at his most vulnerable — mouth open, heart presumably somewhere in the room with them, t...
The iphone screen lit up at 6:47 PM — the third text from him today. I let it fade to black, watching the orange slice wither on my dashboard. Its edges were turning brown, just li...
The bear had been in our driveway for three mornings in a row. A black bear, smaller than I'd expected from the news reports, rummaging through trash cans like a disappointed tenan...
Margot's fingers pruned in the chlorinated water, three mornings a week for fifteen years. The community pool at 5 AM — her meditation, her church, her only solitude from the bull ...
The goldfish had outlived them both. Marcus had been dead for three years. Elena had stopped speaking to me for seven. But the goldfish—this stupid, resilient orange comet that Ma...
The pool water was that impossible, chemical blue—the color of things that are clean but not real. Marcus sat on the lounge chair, nursing his fourth gin and tonic, watching his ...