I couldn’t leave. I told myself it was protocol, that I needed to wait for the social worker, but that was a lie.…

I didn’t hear them leave. All I heard was the blood roaring in my ears, a high-pitched ringing that drowned out the world.…

The notary’s office was suffocatingly quiet, smelling of stale paper and old wood. The only sound was the scratching of Don Melchor’s pen.…

I’d been standing there, frozen, for maybe thirty seconds, the laughter still bouncing off the peeling white paint of the porch. The suitcase…

Dawn broke over the Arizona desert like a wound, all red and gold and angry. By the time the sun cleared the horizon,…

“Oh, and lady,” the tattooed man, Kyle, called out from my porch. “Your stuff’s on the side yard. Didn’t want to keep junk…

Three years. That’s how long I’d been a ghost. For 1,095 days, I had existed in the spaces between. I moved through my…

The first thing I felt when I woke up was cold panic. My eyes snapped open. The apartment was silent. Too silent. She’s…

She held my gaze for just a second, a flicker of shared understanding in the face of tyranny, and then she was gone,…

I ran. My $300 suit, the one that cost me two weeks of pay, was already dark with sweat. It didn’t matter. The…