Grant Witmore’s world was a symphony of silence, a meticulously composed masterpiece of solitude. His penthouse apartment, a glass-walled eyrie perched high above…
The car was an island of strained, suffocating silence, moving through a landscape of impenetrable darkness. Outside, the world was a blur of…
The silence in Nathan Hayes’ apartment was a living thing. It had weight and texture, and on nights like tonight, Christmas Eve, it…
The silence was the first thing that struck them. Not the quiet of an empty house, but a heavy, suffocating silence that seemed…
The air in the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo was thick with an almost sacred anticipation. It was July 2021, and the world,…
Hope can be a dangerous thing in a world made of dust and darkness. For ten-year-old Emily Reeves, whose universe had shrunk to…
The gray house on the corner of Elm Street was a place of secrets. It stood silent and withdrawn, its windows perpetually veiled…
The world had gone soft at the edges for Tom Callaway, a watercolor painting left out in a gentle rain. Through the milky…
At night, when the world outside is quiet, Abbie Chatfield’s home becomes a fortress. She wedges her dog’s heavy crate against her bedroom…
In the days following the death of Charlie Kirk, America was a nation at war with itself. The 31-year-old conservative activist was a…