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The call came in at 12:47 a.m., and I answered it standing barefoot on the cold tile of my Austin kitchen

The chandeliers at the Marriott downtown were the kind that threw little diamonds of light across white

I manage the building at 214 Larchwood Court in Dayton, Ohio — twenty-six units, mostly young families

I work as a bookkeeper at a real estate office on Elm Street, and I was the one handling the escrow account

Maya Reinholt had been sitting in her car outside the parking garage on Fifth Street for twenty minutes

Marissa Callahan learned how to read her son's silences before she learned how to pay a mortgage alone.

The first thing I noticed about the man at Table 14 was that he'd sent his drink back twice before

My name's Daniel Ferris, and for thirty-one years I thought I knew exactly who I was. Turns out

My name is Jenna Whitfield, I'm thirty-one, and I run a small physical therapy practice outside

The town of Millbrook, out past Ashland in the Ohio hill country, smelled of woodsmoke and wet leaves