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The Disappearing Acts of Esperanza Delgado
The first time Marcus Chen noticed Esperanza Delgado's fingertips were translucent, the Phoenix sun was just beginning to hemorrhage across the horizon, painting the desert in shades of copper and blood...
The Soil Between Us
The morning light came gray through the windows of the Golden Lotus Nail Salon, and Linh Nguyen sat in the third chair from the left, the one with the small tear in the vinyl that she'd covered with clear tape...
The Unmuted Murder
The little green light beside Priya Mehta's laptop camera blinked steadily, a cyclops eye witnessing what would become, in the peculiar fashion of modern times, a most unusual crime scene...
The Last Order
The smell hit Priya on the fourteenth floor, just as the elevator doors wheezed open. Not the usual cocktail of Mumbai apartment building odors—curry, incense, mildew from the monsoon that never quite dried out. This was something else...
The Longest Ride
The ping came through at 11:47 PM. Miguel looked at the pickup location—the medical complex on Camelback Road. Probably another nurse getting off the late shift. He'd done this run a hundred times...
The Memory Keeper of Liberdade
The iPhone 6 lay open on Kenji Watanabe's workbench like a patient etherized upon a table, its cracked screen catching the amber light of his desk lamp...