The First Kill March 2021 I lost count of the seconds that night. I want that written down first, because it is the only time it has happened, and because I have never forgiven it. --- His name was Colin Maraj. I knew it for nine days before I met...
Tuesday, 20:47 The bike had been easy. That was the part Danny kept coming back to. A gas station camera on NW 7th, two blocks from where Kevin Duarte's car had been found with the keys still in it. Timestamp 03:10. Grainy, the way all gas station footage is grainy,...
The Meeting Seven Pomegranates The shop was still open at 22:15, which was the first thing Isabel had been told about it and the first thing she confirmed. A narrow door between a closed phone repair store and a laundromat that never seemed to close either, a hand-painted sign...
The First Night September 2020 The text had come on Monday at 04:51. I'm with Sara. I'll be home Thursday night. Destiny had read it lying in bed with the phone an inch from her face, the AC unit rattling in the window, and she had read it four more...