by admin | Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Vanessa never meant to seduce the mirror. It began with something ordinary, an object left to her by a woman she barely knew. Her Great Aunt Joyce had owned it. As a child, Vanessa had always coveted it. The mirror was enormous, framed in heavy brass, and stood in...
by admin | Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Chapter 1 – A Walk in the Park A storm had raged all that week. A nor’easter, coming from the cold black Atlantic, up the coast, riding hard through the wilds of Long Island to beat at the windows of Manhattan. In its wake, it left an almost uncomfortably...
by admin | Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Chapter One – The Ad To this day, Oscar didn’t know who sent him the newspaper clipping. The return address on the plain white envelope read New York Times headquarters, but he doubted someone at the Gray Lady sent him a week-old page from their classified...
by admin | Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
In my dream, we are walking through a village where everyone has died of the plague. It’s a small hamlet, only a dozen buildings—all cobblestone and wood, with a simple church at one end and a well at the other. Every single person is dead. Every child, every...
by admin | Oct 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
There it was again, the tightening in my chest—the fear of what the night might bring, closing in around me, tunneling my vision, squeezing my throat. I’d taken the train to Brooklyn. I’d followed the instructions from the little encrypted messaging app. I’d walked...