Kevin could fix anything. Yet he was surrounded by broken things. He would fix one thing, and two others would break.

Rich people could throw everything away and buy brand new things. That was the only way a person could be free from broken things. To buy themselves out. Kevin and...

Helena walked sipping the cup of cold brew coffee mixed with whole milk. She would be halfway done with it by the time she reached this park. Her sister and cousins always made fun of how slow she drank and ate. Her mom left her alone about this.

At the park...

"Gotta get your rest" he had told the kid. But really he was talking to himself. He hated doing this. Saying things he was saying to himself to others. Not having a  family made it easy to get away with this behavior.

When you didn't have people you spoke with regularly,...

Marc Love resented being a celebrity. But he was grateful that he was an unknown celebrity .

Had the world known him to be the Blue Man, there would be troops of speculators on  reddit commenting about his personal life. Love sat there smoking a cigarette, his ass on concrete thinking...

What did Stan look like? He was a thin guy. And wore a funny hat. He was more than those things. But whenever I heard people describe the guy, they always used those attributes. Skinny guy. Always wore that funny hat.

You didn't need an invitation to attend a  funeral ....

Although the bathroom was bright, it felt like the wrong place to be. Sort of like an alley at the wrong hour of the night.

By the time the urge to run arrived, he felt it too late. Right then that urge was overtaken by his ego . The desire to...

As soon as he arrived at the bar, he had a beer in hand. The golden lager vanished in three gulps. A long, loud belch escaped from his barrel chest. Some people at the bar peered over. His coworkers laughed. The bartender got him his second beer un prompted.

That beer...

He thought about the tip jar. Guesstimated how much was in there. Tried distracting himself until his mind brought back what he was really thinking about. Back at the mansion. With Mr. Green.

He looked for him. He never stayed at the cafe long. But Stan had never seen Mr. Green...

Fuck, Stan thought. Had what just happened, really happened?

"Relax, Stanley boy."

Fuck was he reading his mind?

"I know that must've been... alarming. But I promise you you'll get used to it."

Stanley was too afraid to look over at Mr. Green. He tried to steal a peak when Mr. Green seemed to...

Two men found dead in an upscale neighborhood outside the city limits. The bodies were murdered professionally. Clean gunshot wounds front to back straight to the heads. The killer did not attempt to cover their tracks. Bullet casings were left on site.

Police tried to trace the bullet casing serial back...