She had never known silence.From the moment Eliana was born, the world around her had been filled with shouting, with sirens, with the crack of glass breaking and fists pounding through the night. Her father was the kind of man whose anger didn’t end with words. Her mother was the kind of woman who stayed. […]
The last time Daniel Brennan stood at the top floor of the tower that bore his name, the sun was setting in gold behind the glass skyline. Below, the city moved like clockwork—cars inching forward in lanes, people hurrying past cafés, life unfolding in its usual hum. Inside, however, the stillness was heavy. He was […]
Nathaniel Kerr wore his suits like armor. Crisp, tailored, unwrinkled—always navy or charcoal, never brown. The morning the story begins, he was tying a Windsor knot in the full-length mirror of his penthouse apartment overlooking Manhattan. It was October, and the windows were fogged with the kind of chill that smelled faintly of copper and […]
Mira was born on a Thursday, just after a storm had passed over the hills behind their village. Her mother said the sky opened up just enough to let in one soft beam of sun before the clouds closed again. That’s when she came — quiet, wide-eyed, and blind.The doctors confirmed it a week later. […]
Elliot wore the scar like a secret.It curved just above his left brow, the faint pinkish line barely visible unless the light caught it just right. In high school, he told people he got it cliff diving in Maui, or once during a midnight skateboarding accident. Once, he even said it was from a fight […]
The first time Ellie saw him, it was raining. Not a soft, sentimental drizzle, but a full, relentless downpour that blurred the streetlights and turned sidewalks into silver rivers. She had ducked into the old train station for shelter, the one with a vaulted ceiling and broken clocks that no longer ticked. That’s when she […]
A Letter Found in the Hospital BibleIt was tucked in the middle of Psalms, as if resting there had given it peace.Nurse Ellen didn’t notice it at first. The Bible sat on the shelf of the hospice family room, spine worn, gold lettering almost rubbed away by countless hands. She had picked it up out […]
The knife was sharp, and his fingers trembled as he held it.Jorge had done this before—too many times to count. Not to himself, but to others. There was a rhythm to survival in the part of the city where the alleyways swallowed the desperate. You didn’t ask questions. You didn’t hesitate. You took what you […]
The guards called him “Ghost.” Not because of anything supernatural—though some swore they saw him talking to the air, eyes fixed on something no one else could see—but because he moved through the prison like he wasn’t really there. Quiet. Kept to himself. Didn’t flinch when chaos erupted. Didn’t join the gangs. Didn’t trade, didn’t […]