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  • The Vanishing Years – Part 3

    Previously on The Vanishing Years, while the media obsesses over the disappearance of Lydia Fairfax, a darker, quieter pattern was being ignored. Seven elderly women—poor, mostly Black, living alone—had vanished across the city, their cases barely earning a paragraph in… Continue reading

    The Vanishing Years – Part 3

  • One-Eyed Messiah

    All the kids on the block call me the Cyclops. It’s not a name I chose, but it’s the one that stuck, whispered between their bicycles and bouncing basketballs. They don’t know much about me except that I live alone… Continue reading

    One-Eyed Messiah

  • The Shadow Across the Street

    From his porch, Danny was certain he saw movement in the house across the street. That didn’t make sense. The place had been empty for months, ever since the last family was evicted. Yet in the faint glow of the… Continue reading

    The Shadow Across the Street

  • Lost & Found

    In New York Citya subway stranger snarled at me,“Get lost!” So I did I walked away from the concrete hiveslipped beyond the skyline’s reachand wandered into the wilderness There I washopelessly lostwonderfully lostat last, alive And still I rememberthat greasy… Continue reading

    Lost & Found

  • Bow to the Morning

    At dawn we risebelieving the world is ours Yet the river runs its own coursethe wind bends the brancheswithout asking Knowing thiswe bow to the morningempty handsopen heart Continue reading

    Bow to the Morning

  • The Wise & The Foolish

    The fool proclaims wisdomhis tongue heavy with certainty The wise bow their headsseeing only clouds in the mirroremptiness in their cup To know oneself a foolis to step lightly on the earthto laugh madly with the sparrowto sit with the… Continue reading

    The Wise & The Foolish

  • The Vanishing Years – Part 2

    Previously on The Vanishing Years, when the news breaks that socialite and heiress Lydia Fairfax has gone missing, the newsroom spirals into chaos. Reporters swarm around TVs, hungry for scraps from a police press conference. Assigned to the story, reporter… Continue reading

    The Vanishing Years – Part 2

  • Below the Strip

    By day, Rico dealt blackjack under the migraine glare of neon. He wore the tuxedo vest, the bow tie, the fake smile. The pit bosses called him “steady hands,” because no matter how many tourists spilled their daiquiris across the… Continue reading

    Below the Strip

  • Storm Hymn

    Rain hammers the roofthunder cleaves the sky Darkness rolls in wavesa tide we cannot turn Who are we to question the storm? Nature speaks in fury and graceand we bow before herlearning beauty in her wrathand reverence in her fire Continue reading

    Storm Hymn

  • The Vanishing Years – Part 1

    When socialite Lydia Fairfax vanishes, the city erupts in a frenzy of headlines, search parties, and speculation. But reporter Ethan Cole sees something far stranger simmering beneath the media circus: a string of overlooked disappearances of elderly women no one… Continue reading

    The Vanishing Years – Part 1