Author: longtr

The first thing I heard was glass breaking across the hall. Not the light, harmless sound of a cup slipping from a counter. Not the…

I was still kneeling beside Maeve Sullivan’s sofa when she told me to go home and take a shower. Wood dust clung to my hair….

The first thing I noticed was that Maya Bennett was not wearing shoes. That detail struck me before the fear on her face, before the…

I knew I had crossed a line the moment Meera exhaled under my hands. Not because I had done anything cruel. Not because she had…

The river looked hungry enough to swallow my truck whole. Water slid across the bridge in a filthy brown sheet, hissing beneath my headlights as…

“Then practice on me first.” Elena Vance said it while standing in my doorway with rain dripping from her dark hair, her expensive coat soaked…

I was looking directly at my neighbor when the wind betrayed her. For two frozen seconds, Emma Wallace stood on Shoreline Beach with both hands…

The first time Elena Vance told me to kiss her, it had nothing to do with love. It had everything to do with survival. Rain…

The pounding on my apartment door did not sound like a knock. It sounded like panic wearing human hands. I came awake in the dark…