At the company fundraiser, the CEO’s daughter auctioned me as a joke. Who wants my boring analyst? She laughed into the mic as the crowd snickered. One guy yelled, ten […]
The Invisible Chain Chapter 1: The Notification 11:45 PM. My phone lit up the dark room with a single, brutal notification. A forwarded bill from The Zenith Lounge. Fifteen thousand […]
The Community Center Wedding The community center looked exactly like what it was: a sanctuary of utility, not vanity. It was a simple, rectangular room with scuffed linoleum floors that […]
The Terminal of Lost Souls They say blood is thicker than water, but in the sterile, fluorescent glare of Dubai International Airport, I discovered that blood can freeze just as […]
Roach Girl’s Revenge I still don’t know what made me go. The 10-year high school reunion invite sat in my inbox for weeks, a digital ghost I kept opening and […]
The Inheritance The February rain hadn’t just soaked through my black wool coat; it felt like it had seeped into the marrow of my bones, chilling me from the inside […]
The Blue Plate The air inside the reception tent smelled of imported white orchids and old money. It was a cloying, suffocating scent, the kind that masks rot beneath floorboards. […]
The Interview My name is Madison. I’m twenty-five, and on that morning, I genuinely believed—maybe, just maybe—my life was finally turning a corner. I’d landed an interview with an actual […]
The Inheritance of Silence Chapter 1: The Yellow Dress During the will announcement, my in-laws handed every grandchild an envelope except my eight-year-old. “We’ve decided you don’t count as family,” […]
The Wrong House Chapter 1: The Capacity Limit “Sorry, Jessica. Strict capacity limit. We didn’t get your RSVP in time.” My mother’s voice was a whisper, but it cut through […]
