The glass doors whispered shut behind us, a sound so soft it felt violent. It was a final, dismissive whoosh, sealing us back…
The morning after the pool, I woke up at 5:30 AM, just as I had every day for fifteen years. But this time,…
The doors hissed open. The light was so bright it hurt my eyes. A woman in blue scrubs looked up from her desk,…
Mrs. Carmen Mendoza opened the door herself. I had been expecting a butler, someone imposing in a uniform, but it was just her.…
I sat back, the leather of my chair groaning in the silence. The fate of a multi-billion dollar merger, which was supposed to…
The couch was a graveyard. That’s what I thought every time I walked in. It was Sarah’s couch. The soft, overstuffed striped one…
The next morning, I did something I hadn’t done in years. I stopped at a gift shop. I bought a small, plush teddy…
The walk from my locker to the parking lot always felt like crossing a desert. A hundred yards of linoleum tile, each step…
The garage door was my sky. A big, rattling sheet of corrugated metal. That was the first thing I saw when I woke…
The ride to the river was a blur of roaring steel and cold wind. I had the kid tucked against my chest, her…