Zombie State
The **goldfish** was still floating when I left for Tyler's party. Three days I'd had that thing, and now I was murdering pets through neglect. Mom would say it was a metaphor for ...
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The **goldfish** was still floating when I left for Tyler's party. Three days I'd had that thing, and now I was murdering pets through neglect. Mom would say it was a metaphor for ...
Lily loved stormy afternoons, especially when her golden retriever Sparky would do something extraordinary. Every time lightning flashed across the sky, Sparky's fur would glow lik...
Marcus stood by the pool, nursing his flat soda like it was the only interesting thing at Jasmine's party. Again. The backyard was full of TikTok-famous kids doing TikTok-famous th...
Eleanor sat on the worn wooden dock, her legs dangling just above the surface. The lake water, still as glass, reflected the amber light of late afternoon. She peeled an orange—her...
Leo hated spinach. He pushed the green leaves around his plate every evening. "But it makes you strong!" his grandmother said with a wink. "And magical." Leo rolled his eyes. Eve...
Margaret sat on her wicker chair beside the swimming pool, watching her grandchildren splash and shout. At seventy-eight, she no longer joined them in the water, but she found joy ...
Lily's golden retriever, Buster, was no ordinary dog. He had one ear that stood up and one that flopped down, and he always seemed to know when something magical was about to happe...
Maria stared at the orange pill in her palm — her daily vitamin C, the first thing she consumed every morning for fifteen years. The routine felt like a lifeline, though she couldn...
Emma traced the lifeline on her left palm, the way her grandmother had taught her when she was seven, though she hadn't believed in fortune-telling since before the divorce. The po...
Margaret stood at the kitchen window, watching her grandson Ethan practice his pitching in the backyard. At seventy-eight, she still wore her silver hair in the same tight bun her ...
Rusty the fox had never seen anything like it. Behind an old stone wall, hidden among tangled vines, a magical pool shimmered in the dappled sunlight. The water looked like liquid ...
Maria hadn't been herself since the pyramid scheme collapsed—that glittering financial castle she'd built with Alejandro's money, with her mother's retirement fund, with the lies s...