She Said: “I still make tea the way he likes it.” The boy has been here a month, and I’ve started setting three places at the table without thinking about it. Muscle memory, maybe, or something deeper—the way a house…
Marcus Three years post-graduation, mechanic, never left town You want to know about Ellie Chen? Man, I haven’t talked about this in… well, ever, I guess. Not the real story. People in town, they remember the surface stuff – how…
Chapter 1 Dr. Willa Chen had exactly seventeen minutes to explain why her trebuchet design wouldn’t launch their entire team into the neighboring corn maze along with the pumpkin. “The fulcrum point is too high,” announced Brad Morrison, crossing his…
A Fall Festival novella set in Maple Ridge A crisp-air second chance collides with pumpkin-spice chaos at Maple Ridge’s Fall Festival. Clara Martinez had been driving for three days when she saw the marigolds. Not real ones—it was late October,…
