THE LOOK
The supermarket was unusually quiet for a Friday night. Fluorescent lights hummed softly above polished white tiles. Shopping carts rolled somewhere in the distance. A …
WEIGHT OF SILENCE
“I’ve done something really bad… that’s why I live alone.” That sentence had lived inside Ethan Cole’s head for three years. His apartment in downtown …
THE SEARCH
For one year, the richest man in the city lived like a ghost. On the cold sidewalks of New York, people called him nothing. Some …
The Last Five Dollars
The wind cut through downtown Chicago like it had something personal against the living. It was late October, the kind of cold that arrived early …
RESPECT ISN’T A JOKE
Outside the tall iron gates of Westbridge College, the afternoon sun cast a golden glow over the crowd of students pouring out after lectures. Girls …