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You were a shadow in the neon haze of the city, a cute alt-girl goth with porcelain skin and a loner's heart, painting m...

In the electric hum of Nashville's back-alley stages, Alphonse chased stardom like a firefly in a jar. They weren't just...

Sarah Connor slung plates of greasy eggs and watery coffee across the sticky counter of the all-night diner in Hell's Ki...

Galileo had always been a man of distances. From the frozen sweeps of his childhood in Russia, where he'd learned the ar...

Omar had always been the quiet fixer in the fraying weave of Elmwood Heights, a suburb where chain-link fences sagged li...

Dr. Elias "Nip Nip" Harlan had always been the thorn in the side of complacency. In the fluorescent-lit boardrooms of co...

Thomas had never been one for roots. In the sun-baked sprawl of Reno, where the desert wind carried the faint tang of sa...

Kenji had always been the quiet anchor in Muroran, a port town on Hokkaido's rugged coast, where the sea's salt tang min...

Fatima had always found solace in the guts of machines, where wires whispered secrets and circuits pulsed like hidden ve...

In the hushed nave of the Eldridge Manor, dust motes danced like forgotten spirits in the slanted afternoon light, Regin...

In the dim hum of the call center on the fourteenth floor of a sagging office tower in downtown Cleveland, Riley hunched...

Claudie had always been the ghost in the machine of corporate boardrooms, a consultant who plunged into independent deep...