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I didn’t turn around when the sound landed. It wasn’t a thud or a dull impact; it was a sharp,…

The slap lands with a hard, dry crack that doesn’t belong in a house this beautiful. You feel it in…

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For a moment Sophie froze, the color draining from her face. Then she moved, fast, dropping to her knees beside…

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Ethan Cole had learned to measure time in smaller and smaller units. Not months, not years. Not even weeks. Days….

Carlos came home near midnight and went straight to the shower. His phone buzzed on the kitchen table. I wasn’t…

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Clare Donovan had tried the ignition four times already. The fifth time was pure spite, her manicured fingers tighter on…

Even now, she tried to protect me with ordinary words. I sat beside her. The chair was cold enough to…

The helicopter testing facility sat outside the city like a secret, a wide concrete island surrounded by chain-link fences and…

Rain turned the world into a blurred watercolor at eleven p.m., the kind of night where headlights looked like pale…