The Reckoning
The bullet takes him in the shoulder before he hears the shot. Nikos throws himself behind a concrete pillar, gasping, his old Kalashnikov clutched against his chest. The pain hasn’t…
Three Days
Day One The first anomaly arrived at 7:14 AM in the form of an absence. Severan noticed it during his morning review, the fifteen minutes between his second espresso and…
The Boat
The apartment smelled like his father. Tobacco and stone dust and the sourness of a window left cracked through winter. Dimitri stood in the doorway with his suitcase in one…
The Box
The shop didn’t look like anything. Wedged between a tailor and a phone repair stall on the eastern edge of Market Square, it had no sign, no display window, no…