The knock on the guest room door was so soft I thought I’d imagined it. It had been two days since the Incident.…
The sharp smell of antiseptic was a suffocating blanket, mixing with the rhythmic, mechanical beeping of the heart monitor. It was the only…
I drove without direction. The world outside the windshield was a blur of neon and rain that hadn’t started falling yet. I drove…
I tried to tell myself the t-shirt in her laundry basket meant nothing. It was a plain white T-shirt, one of Mark’s, with…
That night, Clara, my nurse, was apoplectic. “You’ve lost your mind! You gave a homeless vagrant your address? He’s probably casing the house…
The silence in that garden wasn’t just quiet. It was a vacuum. It sucked the air from my lungs, the blood from my…
I sat at my own kitchen table and stared at the small, spiral notebook with unicorns on the cover. My daughter’s handwriting, so…
The sirens weren’t distant. They were here. A piercing, rising wail that swallowed the tiny, suffocating silence of our Seattle kitchen. The sound…
The Virginia air was sharp and bright, a cruel contrast to the fog in my head. I leaned against the rough brick wall…
I crossed the foyer in two strides. Meline tried to block me, her hands fluttering. “Jonathan, it’s not what it looks like! She…