Their heads snapped toward me, two perfect, identical motions. Their eyes—fogged, empty glass a second ago—were now wide, sharp, and full of pure,…
They were small, white, and scored. A cold, chemical dread washed over me, so total and so numbing that the sound in the…
The first time Emma came back from her grandparents’ house crying, I brushed it off. “Mommy, my tummy hurts,” she’d whimpered, burying her…
His voice was like gravel, a sound that shouldn’t exist. “Who… are you?” Time stopped. The rain, the thunder, the pounding in my…
The ballroom didn’t just glitter. It devoured light. Thousands of champagne flutes stood like a glass army, waiting. The chandeliers dripped crystals, and…
The rain was a shroud, turning the bright morning light of the Maple & Steam Café into a watery, gray gloom. It matched…
“Stop drinking that juice. You will heal.” The words were tiny, but they cut through the oppressive silence of the master suite like…
The walk down the stairs was a journey through a graveyard. My own. Each step was a memory, a moment, a future, now…
The heels of the women clicked on the marble floor like retreating gunshots. Their perfume, a cloying mix of jasmine, tuberose, and bitter…
The drive to Carol’s house was only fifteen minutes. It was the longest fifteen minutes of my life. The world outside the windshield…