The chapel’s air was thick with lilies and performance. Grief had rehearsed well.Marin stood before the casket—the one they said held what was…

The air thinned until every breath felt like classified information. Colonel Roordon studied her—head tilted, jaw set, eyes flicking with the kind of…

“—my plane, my rules.” Her words rolled through the terminal like the hum of an engine that had just decided where to go.…

The guard’s voice trembled through the comms. “Sir… it’s Lieutenant Hale. She’s alive.” The words shouldn’t have existed. Not here. Not now. In…

The air in the field hospital trembled like a held breath. Metal clattered, boots scraped, the stench of iron filled the lungs of…

I thought it would be just another stop—kiss on the cheek, grab a clean shirt, maybe sleep twelve hours before the next surveillance…

They called him the quiet janitor.No one remembered his name—only that he mopped the hallway outside the secure server room of Camp Delta,…

The wind didn’t howl—it screamed, a sound sharp enough to make even grown-ups believe in endings.Jenna pressed her children close inside the shallow…

It started with a decision she didn’t have to make.A man in a tattered jacket stood at the ER counter, clutching his side,…

The roof ticks when it cools, the lavender hums like something alive, and the sunset paints my land in gold no bank can…