There wasn't much time left. Soon something would irreversible would happen.

Uneven, deep breaths passed through her. Camilla was looking for his phone number. She had to reach him now. Before Fred arrived at his place. When Fred had left she had seen him concealing his left hand in his jacket....

Lacy stared out the window thinking about what bugged her the most. Soon the kettle would sing and she could make her tea. But until then she was stuck with her thoughts.

Things were strange between Lacy and her boyfriend. He'd been acting strange since he'd gotten out of the coma...

Waking at 4AM involuntarily can be nice sometimes. Get an unexpected early start to the day. Or have a few peaceful thoughts while laying there, then return to slumber. But when you awake soaked in sweat , gasping for breath, it's like you were thrown into an existence you never...

Entering the hackathon was exciting in itself. Andrew Cook sat toggling between two browser tabs. One his email where he re-read the welcome email . The other the event website . An hour passed with him toggling these two tabs. He was seated at a table in his favorite cafe...

He began visiting the Vietnamese restaurant regularly. They had good pho ,  spring rolls , and skewered meats. The owner, when he'd given the kid his first meal for free had known what he was doing. Knew the kid would be return. Spend all his discretionary money on the satisfying,...

His views dropped fast. He went from being the #1 watched TikTok influencer to being homeless in two weeks. The man in the nice suit who had been with him through his stardom abandoned him the moment any association with The Blue Man became inconvenient. The man with the nice...

He went to pay for his discounted meal but was surprised. On the house, the owner said, his eyes closed, head down in a slight bow. He had even had a Vietnamese coffee after his meal. Why were they not making him pay.

"Please, let me pay."

"No it is okay. You...

The best part about being a newspaper delivery man was that Andrew got to people watch . You saw all kinds of people on this job. Not that all kinds of people read the newspaper. Only a fringe of the population now touched, let alone read the newspaper. But the...

"God Dammit!" Sardinsky yelled, while letting go of the collar of the kid in front of him who was a foot shorter. 80 pounds lighter. Or at least that kid had been those things. Now he... or it, was just a corpse. Sardinsky looked down at his white polo. It...

The next day everybody was a little bit less glued to their phone. They were discussing what The Blue Man had recently done. It was the first time a social media influencer was able to murder somebody on camera and not go to prison for it. Well not yet. Who...