PART 1: The Challenge Chapter 1: The Weight of Every Inch They call me Specialist Martinez, but I’ve always just been…
PART 1: The Final Click of the Lock Chapter 1: The Grounding and the Silence My dad’s voice cracked through the…
PART 1: The Weight of the Wing CHAPTER 1 The roar was less a sound and more a tremor in the bone. It…
PART 1 CHAPTER 1: The Shattered Cowbell The door to The Last Stop Diner exploded inward. It wasn’t kicked open; it was…
Part 1 The words landed like a gut punch on the blistering Arizona tarmac. “You don’t belong here. Maybe try the nurse’s…
The Golden Sunset Care Center was an illusion built on stolen dignity. From the outside, it was all manicured lawns, polished brass, and…
Mrs. Henderson’s face was a mask of practiced calm, but her eyes, magnified by her reading glasses, were darting around the empty hallway…
I didn’t cry again after that night. Shock does something strange to grief. It doesn’t numb it; it freezes it. It traps the…
It shouldn’t have landed the way it did. Omission has become a familiar room—I know where the chair goes, where the light switch…