The reading of the will took place in the library of Blackwood Manor, a room that smelled of old leather, cigar smoke, and…
The Number 40 bus, winding its way through the rain-slicked streets of Seattle’s South Lake Union, was a rolling tin can of exhaustion.…
The Wellington Estate in East Hampton was not designed for comfort; it was designed for envy. From the manicured hydrangeas that lined the…
The pot had been simmering for eighteen hours. In the small, cramped kitchen of a walk-up apartment in Queens, Mrs. Nguyen hovered over…
The fluorescent lights of the Sterling Lab at Hawthorne University buzzed with a sound that Sarah came to associate with exhaustion. It was…
The rehearsal dinner was held in the solarium of the Kensington Estate, a sprawling vineyard in Napa Valley that had been in the…
The divorce papers hit the marble kitchen island with a sound like a gunshot. Jason Sterling stood on the other side of the…
The crystal chandeliers of the Grand Ballroom at the Plaza Hotel did not just sparkle; they judged. It was the seventieth birthday of…
Genre: Corporate Drama / Revenge Word Count: Approx. 2,100 words The lobby of the Sterling & Vance Tower in downtown Manhattan was a…
The cave was a cathedral of damp stone and despair. Corporal Kenji Sato sat in the dark, his back pressed against a jagged…